English Explanatory Dictionary

mother wound

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A relationship difficulty between a mother and her child, when the child perceives the mother or a mother figure as having caused emotional harm to the child through being critical, aloof, unloving, absent, addicted, etc. when the child was very young.

Word forms

mother wound mother wounds
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