Of course, all mothers are in a relationship with their children, and there will be a natural flow of emotional support within any healthy relationship. What I am talking about here is when the amount of emotional support required by the mother is out of balance and unhealthy for the child. In a healthy parent-child dynamic, the parent is the adult, and it is the adults’ role to care for the child emotionally; it is NOT the child’s job to emotionally care for the parent.
When a child does most of the emotional labour in the relationship, it can effectively rob a child of their childhood. The child can constantly be left worrying about how their mother is feeling and how their behaviour, presence, or lack of presence affect their mother. They may have even felt responsible for keeping their mother alive.
These are heavy burdens for children to carry, and, typically, these children will grow up too soon.
This is a cycle that CAN be broken.
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