Your mother sounds like a sexual predator disguising herself as the ultimate attachment parent. It’s your description of the postweaning, clearly sexual breast fondling that is alarming. I’m not insinuating that women who breast-feed their children past toddlerhood are doing something wrong. That picture would have given you some traumatic flashbacks. I hope you missed the newsstands last week and didn’t see the cover of Time featuring a young mother with an almost 4-year-old latched to her breast. I’m so disgusted it’s keeping me up at night. But I don’t want my sister to have the same revulsion at her own memories and confused feelings that I suffered. When I tell my mother that I’m grossed out and that my sister’s too old for this, she won’t listen. My mother refuses to consider she could be encouraging inappropriate impulses in my sister. My sister is my mom’s last child, and my mother persists in treating her as a baby. Mom breast-fed her until really late, and now my sister feels my mother’s breasts the way my brother and I did. Now I’m 18, a senior in high school, and I have a little sister who’s 9 years old. She never told us what sex was, and later when I found out, I felt revulsion at the memories of how I touched, and wanted to touch, my own mother. She let us touch and play with her breasts for years after that. My mom let me and my brother breast-feed until we were each about 5 years old. Submit your questions and comments here before or during the live discussion. Got a burning question for Prudie? She’ll be online at to chat with readers each Monday at 1 p.m. Please send your questions for publication to (Questions may be edited.) Get Dear Prudence delivered to your inbox each week click here to sign up.
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