I have a theory that women born in the 60s/70s are struggling with how to live in the world. Their lives are nothing like their mothers, and perhaps they even reject their mothers/MILs ? They have more opportunities than we Baby Boomers ever had yet seem confused with it. Feminism has given them a freedom they have possibly not known how to use when one was brought up by a woman of another time? They are expected to be nice in one area and then assertive in another ? This seems to be blurred into a lot of passive aggressive stuff...wanting to be liked but not feeling worthy perhaps?
Lots of questions for me. But I do know that as mothers we brought our children up for the culture we lived in with them only for them to find they have to negotiate another. Just as we had to make changes from our Depression era parents - though I suspect it wasn't quite a leap as these 40 somethings had to make. Or did they miss out on learning any life skills altogether with their own (often dysfunctional) families
What seems missing is a value system that assures them of their identity ?
What do you Wise Women on here think ?