I love my T dearly, and I wish she could have been at my side during hard times in my childhood - but I never really wished she was my mother - as awful as my mother is/was. I find very loving, "motherly" traits in my T, that I wish I could have felt and experienced as a child.

I don't really look to her or hope for her to a "mother" to me, but a very loving, warm person I hope that I can get to know more.