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The Most Important Thing to Remember About Your Mother

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The Most Important Thing to Remember About Your Mother
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“It is not easy to give closeness and freedom, safety plus danger.”

One of the hardest realizations in life, and one of the most liberating, is that our mothers are neither saints nor saviors — they are just people who, however messy or painful our childhood may have been, and however complicated the adult relationship, have loved us the best way they knew how, with the cards they were dealt and the tools they had.
It is a whole life’s work to accept this elemental fact

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