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.
More people experience this than they realize.
Love sometimes disguises itself as criticism when it fears its own displacement.
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