Does your relationship suffer from mother (lover) syndrome?

By Sandy Smith
Updated April 4 2013 - 4:23pm, first published September 11 2012 - 4:12pm
Standover woman ... do you trust your partner with basic tasks?
Standover woman ... do you trust your partner with basic tasks?
<i>How Can I be Your Lover When I'm Too Busy Being Your Mother?</i>, by S. Dimerman and J.M Keans
<i>How Can I be Your Lover When I'm Too Busy Being Your Mother?</i>, by S. Dimerman and J.M Keans

Do you sometimes joke that your husband has become one of your kids? Are you tired of picking up his socks, cooking his dinner and feeling like you're doing all the parenting on your own, even though you both work outside the house? Are you simmering with so much resentment and anger that your sex life has gone? You're not his wife anymore, you've turned into his mother. And you're not alone: Mother (Lover) Syndrome is everywhere.

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