Week 5- Reading response 4-#1

Mother daughter communication is different because it is an independent dependant relationship on both sides of the spectrum. Daughters are trying to branch off in the direction they want to go, but they feel their mothers are still right behind them picking up as they go, nothing being good enough. In the same breath, they feel like they need to go to their mothers for help because their moms will be the only ones who understand. The problem that happens is advice is offered without being asked. Mothers are only wanting what's best, and trying to save their daughters the time to have to redo what the mothers themselves have already most likely done before. Most of all, the mother is just caring and in some sense feeling rejected by their daughters not wanting to do things their way. My mother and I do not fight like this. I have always gone to her for advice and taken her advice in stride that its only to make me a better person. My mother and grandmother fought and fight horribly about the correct way to do things. I am sure this is why my mom has always tried to listen as well as speak.
I think the relationship between mother and son is very different. With a Mother son relationship mothers aren't looking for approval from their sons. They also aren't trying to make mini clones out of sons. Most cases sons just see their mom as a love source, and moms see their sons as these little boys who can't do anything alone, and that's just accepted, she will still wash their clothes when they come over, make them sandwiches and change their sheets. No matter how old a man gets, they will always be a boy. Which is part of the problem when a girl becomes a woman. 2 queen bees cant live together. But they also feed off of the others work.