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My hairdresser has a mom whose like this. It's hard on her, too. I think everything that others have said sounds about right.

I'd add a few things -- Society foists this idea that a female is not a "real woman" without a man on us from a young age; it takes education and will to get over it.

Also, your mom is hitting that time of life where looks fade -- just as one's daughter is coming into her peak and most desirable and attractive years. Not easy. It isn't a "Gilmore Girls" world out there, and society discards its middle age women.

All of which is to say, Angie, that it's not you -- it's her.

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