It Ends With Me.

You Are Not Imagining It

The Mother Wound Follows You Into Motherhood

A woman raised by an emotionally unavailable mother often carries childhood emotional patterns into her adult relationships and her own motherhood without ever choosing to. That pattern did not begin with you. It began long before you were the mother, back when you were the little girl waiting to be noticed.

It shows up now in the way you brace for conflict with your own daughter, or the way you go quiet instead of asking for what you need. Some days you catch yourself repeating your mother's exact words. Other days you overcorrect so hard you lose yourself trying not to become her.

You were raised by a mother who could not give you what she never received herself. Understanding that pattern, and the emotional availability it cost you, is the first step to keeping it from reaching your daughter.