I'm fortunate. I have a good relationship with my mother. She gets on my last nerve sometimes, but I love her and she has always been loving and supportive of me. She's not perfect, but she's wonderful. The interesting thing is that if you were to ask my sister the same question, she would have a list a mile long of all the things that are wrong with our mother. She blames our mother for almost everything that is wrong in her life. The things that aren't our mother's fault, in her opinion, are the fault of our father. I, on the other hand, think dad is lovely.

Anyway, I'm very grateful for the parents I have. I know how damaging bad parenting is for children. I'm glad I don't have that cross to bear. My sister, who has the same parents, talks a lot about how damaging our childhood was for her. Different perspective, different personality I guess. I got the parents I needed and she didn't. Our parents were the right kind of parents for me and not for her. It's something that causes friction between my sister and me at times.