This thread has me thinking about my own mom, and my relationship with her. While I consider myself close-ish with her now, she has caused me a lot pain that affected the way I developed and grew up. I'm still undoing the effects. I consider it complicated, because we are close now. I should probably examine my relationship with her as a whole. Though I also will probably lose it when I lose her. I would really like to have other close / emotionally intimate relationships besides her.