My mother isolated herself ...

My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchild, my son.
 Laura Schlessinger

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The primary concern of the human animal is to avoid rejection and abandonment.
 Laura Schlessinger
Boys are slobs... One reason is that mothers let them get away with it. Mothers are notorious for spoiling male children.
 Laura Schlessinger
Controlling mothers do not pass the baton to their son's new wife.
 Laura Schlessinger
If there's an award for best mother-in-law in the universe, in the future, when my son gets married, I will win that award.
 Laura Schlessinger
Your mother doesn't own you. Your father doesn't own you. You own you.
 Laura Schlessinger