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Substitute Mom

by Riad
(USA)

Photo Credit: Kolin Toney

Is it normal for an adult, who had a rough childhood, to have an attachment to a "substitute mom" who is a peer? To long to be "mothered," even though s/he is old enough to be a parent themselves? How does an adult move past this?

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