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That's a hard one. I'm afraid to psychoanalyze him because I let my MD in armchair psych lapse.
That she's telling you that you scare the guys is a good sign. My brother scared guys away. The good thing is that it weeds out the idiots for you. I only brought s serious few around, and I only told them "I'm going to marry this one" once. He wasn't intimidated. He was a keeper.
WHen she figures out that a man worth his keep will NOT be afraid of her mother, no matter how intimidating, she'll be grown.
If it makes you feel better, it took me until my late 20s to truly get past this kind of stuff. My mother was always hard on me because she felt that I could do more, that I had potential. That could be somewhat alienating. SHe worried about me, and expressed her fears. Her fears made me feel hemmed in. I needed to explore. I also needed some distance to forge a path for me, not necessarily a path that my family wanted for me.
Give the daughter time and space.
I think your daughter will make you proud.
As for the rest of the thread.
I don't read Maxim. My husband says real men don't read that crap (or do their nails, or follow advice about women from a magazine like Maxim).
What the the hell is a "Maxim worthy woman" anyway? All of those pictures on the cover are airbrushed and photoshopped. AWasn't Maxim the idiots who airbrushed Beyonce to make her legs and butt smaller? And other men complained? Any woman who looks like a woman in Maxim in real life needs a "truth in packaging" label. All these guys demanding "Maxim quality women" are telling us why they get used. If a woman is that high maintence, she's looking for a sugar daddy. Real women who work and live don't have time or energy to look "Maxim worthy".
