Is your mom...

[Sgt Mickey]

Do you consider your mom your best friend or even friend status? If yes age do you think it went from mom to friend?

 

[njmom47]

Do you consider your mom your best friend or even friend status? If yes age do you think it went from mom to friend?

Yes, and sometimes I feel my mom is the only one who TRULY cares about me. I would say after I got my own place, early 20s. (Although I have always been pretty easy to get along with.)

 

[Funfire240]

My mom is my best friend. We can talk about anything. I would have to say it was in my mid to late 20's after I was out on my own and had my career established. It was as if I was "grown up" then and we were able to communicate more.

 

[FlightlessDuck]

My wife is my best friend. My mom is my mom.

 

[goofyintoronto]

Nope, mom is not my bestfriend/friend. She's just my mom. I wish we had that kind of relationship, but we just butt-heads too much.

 

[U2_rocks!]

Mum and dad are special - they live next door, I go over and join them for tea when I can and we chat. We enjoy vacationing together sometimes (they were with us for both major Disney trips with the kids). I don't think of them as "best friends" - they are in a category of their own.

I have lots of people I consider friends, and of course DH - we do all sorts of things that my parents aren't interested in. They don't love me and have my back in quite the same way that DH and my parents do, but I need them just as much in a different way.

 

[wiigirl]

My mom is my best friend.....always there for me.

 

[apirateslifeforme]

My mom is definitely one of my two best friends - the other is my DH. She was a single mom, I'm an only child, the rest of my family is in the midwest (we're in New England), we lived with my grandparents, who are both gone now. But we certainly weren't as close as we are now until I turned 30 and she was 50. I think that's part of what makes us close; for a mom and daughter, we're relatively close in age. I've also grown up (finally ). I talk to her every night, even just for 5 minutes - I need to make sure she's home safe from work! She even has said that now that I'm an adult as well, she sometimes forgets that she's my mother...and she's said things like "If I were your mother..."

 

[mom2boys77]

My mom was definitely my best friend. I would say we got the closest when she moved around the block from me. I was 32. Sadly she was diagnosed with cancer right after that and then passed a year and a half later. The time she was sick was surprisingly when we were the closest. We left nothing unsaid. It's been 2.5 years and I still miss her everyday.

 

[Kogo Shuko]

I don't consider my mother my best friend, but I do consider her a friend. I talk to her online at least two or three times a week, sometimes daily.

Growing up, I was constantly getting in fights with her, but now that I live on my own, things are much more civil. I think part of the problem is that we have different opinions about things, and while I'm usually more capable of accepting someone else's beliefs and opinions, she's not. So there were constant arguments because she thought I was always wrong.

But now that I live on my own, I don't have to share all of my thoughts with her, and things are much better. Sometimes simply having your own privacy and space is enough to change a negative relationship into a healthy and positive one!

 

[cluvsdisney]

No, she's my mom. We talk about lots of things but I don't consider her a friend, it's beyond that.

 

[Chikabowa]

While there are some things I don't discuss with her... Yeah I would say she's probably one of my best friends in life. She's always got my back. We talk on the phone about 2-4 times per day and our lives are pretty interwoven with one another. I rely on her advice frequently and we talk about most everything. We don't always agree.

We've always had a good relationship. I would say that the transformation from "mother" to "friend" happened in my late 20's after I got married and had my first baby. She still tries to mother me sometime, and that can get on my nerves, but mostly she is a friend, confidant, and enteral soft place to land when I'm hurt.

 

[momto2girls]

No, my mom is definitely not my best friend. I wouldn't characterize her as a friend at all.

We have a relatively pleasant relationship, but that is only because we keep a good bit of emotional distance between us. If not, we wouldn't get along at all.

 

[minkydog]

No, my mom is not my friend. She is very crtical of me and can't share much with her without hearing how I'm doing it wrong. My best friend is my little sister. Unfortunately, she lives 2300 miles away

 

[HM]

Nope. My mom is my mom. I love doing things with her, but I would not consider her my friend, really.

 

[mjkacmom]

Yes, after I graduated from college. I speak with her several times a day.

 

[SLP958]

No, my mom is not my friend. I love her but don't enjoy her a a friend type. She is critical of everything and has tried to overstep her bounds at times.

Truth be told of she was not my mom I would not want to spend time with her.

 

[eliza61]

Do you consider your mom your best friend or even friend status? If yes age do you think it went from mom to friend?

Absolutely not, in fact I don't want my mom to be my friend. IMO that so degrades the relationship.
Now some times she fulfills some of those roles but there is never a moment where I want her to be a "friend".

I also tell my kids, I am not their friends and never will be.

My mom is sooo much more than a friend.

 

[smitch425]

I only talk to my mom on the phone about once a week, sometimes less, but we Facebook, too. We live in different states, so we don't hang out as often as we would if we lived in the same place. We are staying with her this weekend, so we have a lot of stuff planned when we actually do get together. I definitely consider her a friend, but mostly a mom. DH is my best friend, followed by my children. I have more in common with my kids than with many adults I have met.

 

[MIGrandma]

Yes, I consider my Mom to be a good friend. I think I was in my early 30's when I started feeling that way. We enjoy a lot of the same things, and enjoy spending time together. I have always felt fortunate to have a great relationship with my Mom, and I feel bad for those who don't have that.

I think my adult daughter (she's 35) and I are good friends as well. We just spent a week at Disney together, and she and her DH are planning a family trip there in January 2015 and have asked us to go along. I love spending time with her, and I think the feeling is mutual.