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“What about sons?”

That was the question both men and women (who were asking about their husbands) posed to me after I posted my last blog about the common wounds daughters of unloving mothers suffer. “You’re writing about me!” one man emailed, while another commented: “I see myself fitting into avoidant attachment and I’m a guy.” An old friend, who is the only child of a smothering and enmeshed mother, wrote, “Well, I suppose if one has a remote father and a mother who clucks and coos over one’s every fever, chill, triumph, or disappointment, one doesn’t quite know what to make of the world and one’s place in it.”

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