Overprotective moms, what were your moms like?

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2. Not protective. We were all, including my mom, abused by my dad. Sexually, physically, mentally, emotionally, psychologically.. i don’t blame her, she didn’t know what she was doing. I’m very cautious about who I let in my life and around my children because of it.

3. I am the child of an extremely overprotective mother and I have alot of mental health issues because of it. From what I was told,her mother drank and partied and lived a care free lifestyle. My mother and her 3 sisters spent alot of time with relatives that were abusive and her mother never cared. My mother is a ball of extreme anxiety and absolutely refuses to believe that mental disorders are real. Only one of her sisters lives a normal life. The other two are obviously suffering. One is a drug addict who I’m honestly not even sure how she has made it to 60 yrs old. My mother refuses to believe any of them have any issues and she’s 63 so it’s never going to change. I’ve learned to work on myself and not engage in conversations about things like that with her. I wish she would have gone to therapy years ago because I truly believe she would have lived a better lifestyle but she just never listened.

4. Not protective at all. She wasn’t really there. I mean she was there physically but she had depression and rarely left her room.

   When we did see her she was mostly angry. She would get angry at every little thing and take it out on us.

   We didn’t get along at all until I became an adult.

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6. I’d say my mother is somewhat protective. Maybe a bit over but not extremely. When I was younger, like the age preteens, she wouldn’t let me go to friend houses to sleep over especially if their father or brother or any other male was around. Whenever I asked why, she said it was because the world is dangerous and she’s scared they will do “things” to me. I’m now going to post-secondary and I’m still not allowed to hang out overnight if there are guys around.