23-year-old daughter wants to prevent mom from shopping at the same stores as her: 'I just hate feeling like she's trying to copy me...'

Mother daughter relationships are rarely straightforward. Every family relationship is different. And it can change over the course of your life. Our relationships with our parents are always changing, even when we get older. Sometimes, especially when we get older. At a certain point in your life, you realize that your parents are also just people. For a long time, you think of them as monolithic, mothers and fathers, but really they started out just like you. When you realize this, a whole other chapter of your relationship begins. The mother and daughter in this story were at the beginning of that relationship shift. And it came to a head when thinking about appearance. Sometimes it's the littlest things that lead to the biggest fights between our loved ones and us. It could be something as small as what you're wearing that day that leads you to a big blowout fight. But it's important to step back and try to gain a little bit of perspective on these situations. You don't want to end up resenting each other over something that you should've communicated about. But that's what was threatening to happen here when this mother and daughter duo just couldn't get out from under their …

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