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When marriage shifts the mother-daughter relationship

My mom and I have always been really close but since I got married last year she's been making little comments about my husband and my choices that feel critical, and I think she's struggling with me having a primary relationship that isn't with her. We're both pretending nothing has changed but there's this new tension between us that we've never had before.

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Love sometimes disguises itself as criticism when it fears its own displacement.

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