I love my mum and I know she loves me but we don't discuss my detransition. I think it's hard for her because she didn't object when she knew transition wasn't for me. Today she visited unannounced to gift me a plant. Her way of checking in without asking difficult questions.
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Do you think you would have paid any heed if she had been more opposed? My mam tried to stop me making a huge mistake, but I couldn't hear her warnings as anything other than something against me that I could stick my heels in about.
I honestly can't say, by I'm leaning towards no, I probably would have ignored her and may even have distanced myself from her out of spite. I was a resentful, angry bam back then, which she realised.
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It took me until I was 30 to realise mam was right and rebuild bridges. Sometimes you have to learn the hard life lessons yourself, whether your parents are there to support you through them or not.
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I'm hearing the mom daughter split as a common thing. In our case, my daughter distanced herself a bit more after each Thursday visit with affirmation therapist Mary Collins.
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Affirmation tends to have that affect, especially if the person being affirmed is a case of rapid onset - usually, they've been knees deep in online pro-transition blogs for a while by then. Are you and your daughter closer now or is she still distancing?
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