Writer's Block: All About My Mother

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First off, everyone in that family was very loving and supportive and accepting of one another. Never once did you see Morticia tell her kids that they couldn't aspire to something--in fact, she encouraged Wednesday to imitate her aunt Calpurnia, but also to get a college education--or that they weren't good enough. Ever. There was never any doubt that she loved her kids, and they felt loved by her in turn.

Also, she was clearly still madly in love with her husband, and he was crazy about her as well. They had a family, but she didn't lose herself. I think I'd have turned out rather differently if I'd had a mom like that, because Morticia Addams is far more "normal" by the standards of child shrinks and family therapists than anything I've experienced from the kind of folk who'd find her terribly terribly odd. I'd leave them for her in an instant.

Writer's Block: All About My Mother

[Error: unknown template qotd]Morticia Addams.

First off, everyone in that family was very loving and supportive and accepting of one another. Never once did you see Morticia tell her kids that they couldn't aspire to something--in fact, she encouraged Wednesday to imitate her aunt Calpurnia, but also to get a college education--or that they weren't good enough. Ever. There was never any doubt that she loved her kids, and they felt loved by her in turn.

Also, she was clearly still madly in love with her husband, and he was crazy about her as well. They had a family, but she didn't lose herself. I think I'd have turned out rather differently if I'd had a mom like that, because Morticia Addams is far more "normal" by the standards of child shrinks and family therapists than anything I've experienced from the kind of folk who'd find her terribly terribly odd. I'd leave them for her in an instant.

Writer's Block: All About My Mother

[Error: unknown template qotd]Morticia Addams.

First off, everyone in that family was very loving and supportive and accepting of one another. Never once did you see Morticia tell her kids that they couldn't aspire to something--in fact, she encouraged Wednesday to imitate her aunt Calpurnia, but also to get a college education--or that they weren't good enough. Ever. There was never any doubt that she loved her kids, and they felt loved by her in turn.

Also, she was clearly still madly in love with her husband, and he was crazy about her as well. They had a family, but she didn't lose herself. I think I'd have turned out rather differently if I'd had a mom like that, because Morticia Addams is far more "normal" by the standards of child shrinks and family therapists than anything I've experienced from the kind of folk who'd find her terribly terribly odd. I'd leave them for her in an instant.