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Jan 8, 2020 · Hormones and personality differences are often blamed for tensions in the mother-daughter relationship, but a therapy model argues that societal expectations routinely set mothers and daughters up for conflict.
- Moving in Different Directions
- Overcommunication
- Overcoming Distance
- Communication Issues
- Feeling Displaced
The Problem: An adult daughter is moving toward independence; thus the primary movement is away from the mother. The mother sometimes experiences this as a loss and makes efforts to draw her daughter back. In attempting to keep the mother-daughter connection alive, the mother may ask questions that the daughter sees as intrusive, or give advice, wh...
The Problem: Female relationships tend to be heavily based on talk, contrasted with male relationships, which often include lots of non-verbal communication and are often predicated on shared activities. Relationships that are based primarily on talk run into difficulties sooner or later; it is human nature to say something that one shouldn't. The ...
The Problem: When mothers and daughters are separated by distance, a different set of problems arises. Women communicate best face-to-face, as they tend to be skilled at picking up on tone, body language, and other cues. When they have to communicate by phone, email, text and other means, they may experience more misunderstandings as well as a gene...
The Problem: In most families, the mother is the primary conduit for disseminating information to family members. Tannen calls the mother the Chief of Communications. That's a mixed blessing, as it means that the mother is likely to be blamed for any misinformation or misunderstandings. In addition, she has to make many crucial decisions about who ...
The Problem: Jealousy is an all-too-common human emotion. A mother may not be jealous of her daughter's peers but may resent a daughter's relationships with her mother-in-law, stepmother, aunt or other older women. Such relationships may be subconsciously perceived as being a threat to the mother-daughter relationship. The Solution: Awareness of th...
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May 22, 2023 · When a daughter hurts her mother is a complicated and sensitive issue that can occur for various reasons. It can stem from misunderstandings, lack of communication, conflict between personalities or values, jealousy, or other underlying factors.
May 9, 2014 · What mothers and daughters fight about: the Big Three. Tannen identifies the three most common sources of friction in mother-daughter conversations: hair, clothes, and weight.
Researcher Karen Fingerman, Ph.D., found that despite conflicts and complicated emotions, the mother-daughter bond is so strong that 80 percent to 90 percent of women at midlife report good...
This pattern of increasing conflict may create the perception that daughters and parents engage in more conflicts during adolescence than do sons. Perhaps there are also more occasions for prolonged parent–daughter conflict in adolescence.
On many occasions, discussions, conflicts and disagreements arise because mothers continue to replicate the same relational pattern that they used to treat their children when they were little. That relational pattern sometimes goes through reprimands, reproaches or impositions.
