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Mother-daughter relationship: when should the cord be cut?

2022-03-10T19:22:36.390Z


Complicity, proximity, intensity: often, mothers and daughters live in symbiosis. A link that conditions life... and can hinder it, when there is not the right distance. Decryption.


On an ordinary Monday morning, a new message appears on the thread of WhatsApp conversations from Véronique, 55, who joins her headhunting firm: three little red hearts concluding with "I miss you too much!"

enamored… Message from his companion who went abroad for two days?

The avalanche of emojis is rarely the privileged mode of expression of the boomer on a business trip... The confession of a lover really younger than her, as evidenced by this syntactic momentum?

No more !

This nice text emanates from his “little” last (24 years old anyway).

Which writes “taf”, after spending a long weekend away and not seeing her “mother of love” for three long days.

Véronique taps a “Me too, my doe, can’t wait to see you tonight!”

equally tender.

To read also"If the mother-daughter relationship is fusional, we do not live her life but that of her mother"

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Beyond the resemblance between Julianne Moore and her daughter Liv Freundlich, personalities in unison.

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Exaggerated?

Atypical ?

On questioning them, there are nevertheless many of them, the mothers and daughters of today – some on the verge of facing the empty nest syndrome, others in…

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