She fails totally and for a lack of trying. It took her mother's death for her to learn what it was she wanted and she is not about to push that away now that she is receiving it. ]
You took a picture I drew of and a poem I wrote in dedication to our pet cat Jaspers, had the paper framed with metal, and then permanently welded to the fridge.
[ Your own daughter-mom is just as attention starved, even if sober, Roxy. She may have a strict sense of personal space (though not as much as a certain supposed Cool Kid), but she has softened as of late and...well, Roxy may just get a FREE PASS in these matters. ]
You showered me with utterly ridiculous gifts and praised my most mundane of achievements as though they were worth of the Nobel Prize. This was all simultaneous with your giving me ludicrously high goals without thinking for a moment that I may not accomplish them. You were nigh omnipresent. It was all embarrassing and irritating.
In other words, yes. Yes, you were more than a good mom.
[ At this point, she is outright encouraging Roxy's touchy-feely dancy behavior as she wraps her arms around her mom-daughter's waist, likely the closest thing to a hug she has ever returned to someone. ]
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She fails totally and for a lack of trying. It took her mother's death for her to learn what it was she wanted and she is not about to push that away now that she is receiving it. ]
You took a picture I drew of and a poem I wrote in dedication to our pet cat Jaspers, had the paper framed with metal, and then permanently welded to the fridge.
[ Your own daughter-mom is just as attention starved, even if sober, Roxy. She may have a strict sense of personal space (though not as much as a certain supposed Cool Kid), but she has softened as of late and...well, Roxy may just get a FREE PASS in these matters. ]
You showered me with utterly ridiculous gifts and praised my most mundane of achievements as though they were worth of the Nobel Prize.
This was all simultaneous with your giving me ludicrously high goals without thinking for a moment that I may not accomplish them.
You were nigh omnipresent.
It was all embarrassing and irritating.
In other words, yes.
Yes, you were more than a good mom.
[ At this point, she is outright encouraging Roxy's touchy-feely dancy behavior as she wraps her arms around her mom-daughter's waist, likely the closest thing to a hug she has ever returned to someone. ]