Familial Relationships

Familial relationships and bonds are often the first relationships a child forms within their lifetime. These relationships create a baseline for the formation of further relationships and provide a basic understanding of relational aspects such as appropriate relationship behaviors and relationship expectations. However, while many familial relationship dyads exist, father-child, mother-child, sibling, and spousal, the mother-daughter dyad appears to be the most intimate and most complicated due to the connection created through birthing attachments and sexual similarity (Pickhardt, 2010). As the daughter begins to age, a complex shift begins to occur; the daughter strives for an increase in authority and responsibilities much sooner than …show more content…
A daughter begins her life by continually disclosing personal information to her mother in an attempt to receive approval of and reward for the actions she has completed. For example, as a child, I constantly told my mother where I was going and what I would be doing to ensure I had her approval and would not be disappointing her by making a wrong decision. However, again, I began to age and strive for my own identity. I believed I could achieve this separate identity by making my own decisions and making sure these decisions were in compliance with my own personal morals and my own personal …show more content…
While the many years of conflict between my mother and I felt as if they would destroy our relationship forever, now that the years of conflict are long gone I have come to the realization that the conflict has actually helped out relationship grow. I feel as if I hold a stronger understanding of who my mother is as an individual and what traits define her, but also what ideas I believe define me as an individual. Overall, although the early years of my adolescence consisted of continuous destructive conflict with my mother, our years of conflict also helped us to separate our identities and discover the true strength of our