The kind of need and dependence that children feel toward their mothers...

[elaine]

Usually your mother is your first mirror, what you're forced to use to form the foundation of your identity, I only find that sad if later in life you're no longer capable of looking into that mirror, it's the essential need and dependence to exist as an identity and you've to stay aware of that if you want to keep a stable identity to guide you through this perception of "reality", or if you want to go beyond your identity which is perhaps what motherhood should be considered as, feelings don't dissipate but identity does