Dear Ash:

Having read your previous thread, reads to me that you are on the right track! You made good decisions last year.

Notice what you mother said: “I’ve been waiting for her to  give me a grand baby before I’m too old to play with it“-reads like she wants a  toy, a breathing-and-living toy to play with. She then goes to Facebook “and constantly show me couples that I  know and  their children”- like a child pointing to toys in a store and telling you: give  me a toy, like this one… and that one!

As daughters, what our mothers think and want from us, is very important  to us, but if we look at  our mothers as the people that they are, not the gods they meant to us when we were very young, we can see them for who they are. She wants  a toy to  play with.

From having read of your sensibility, your logical choices of this year, I  bet you think of marriage and children more seriously than a way  to give your mother something  to play with.

anita