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nonightowl · May 19, 2022 at 11:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Travelinglady

And after we see role models on TV like June Lockhart as Timmy's mother and then the mother of the Robinson children, it makes the longing even worse.

Yeah I used to watch that. Also Leave it to Beaver, Brady Bunch, The Waltons, Happy Days, and The Partridge Family. And they all had warm moms you could confide in and be yourself with.

I used to watch these things partly to fantasize about that kind of life.

I watch Blue Bloods, in which every episode there's a scene of Sunday dinner with the whole family: 4 generations at one table and everyone can be open about things without repercussions. I never had that.

Emotions were taboo in my family, meaning the negative ones. Even happy ones were to be kept "restrained", no jumping up and down and screaming in joy---not even at a sports game.