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mother wound

mother wound noun: 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.

Noun

mother wound (plural mother wounds)

  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.

Forms of mother wound

pluralmother wounds

Questions about mother wound

What does mother wound mean?
Mother wound means 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.
What part of speech is mother wound?
Mother wound is a noun.
What is the plural of mother wound?
The plural of mother wound is mother wounds.

Words near mother wound in the dictionary

  1. mother up
  2. mother wit
  3. mother wits
  4. mother world
  5. mother worlds
  6. mother wound
  7. Mother Xmas
  8. Mother Xmases
  9. Mother's Day
  10. Mother's Days
  11. mother's line

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