My mother says I am a whore for having so many boyfriends
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My mother says I am a whore for having so many boyfriends Posted on May 8 2008 at 12:25am by My mother is from another generation. In fact, she is almost 80 and she is very uncomfortable with how many men I have slept with. But I don't know how to explain to her that i am from another time. I wish someone could tell me how to bridge the divide? 
RE: My mother says I am a whore for having so many boyfriends Posted on May 8 2008 at 4:06pm by My mom is very similar to yours, it seems. Even though she is younger than yours, only 57, she views me in very much the same light. The frustrating thing is that I haven't even slept with many boys/men at all! Besides coming from a very strict Catholic background, my mother was very shy around men. She has told me that she never got attention from boys growing up and she was always very awkward around them. It's hard for me to believe this because I look at pictures of her from when she was my age and she is absolutely gorgeous! Seriously- thin, blonde, and beautiful! For some reason she had low self esteem or some preconceived notion that men were something to avoid or be reserved around. So when I started having friends that were boys -not even romantic interests- but just merely boy, friends, she totally flipped!
I remember in high school if I had friends over to watch television she would storm in the room and turn it off if there was anything slightly sexually suggestive on the TV. It was "improper" to watch in the company of men. Another time I had three boys call me in one night and she said "I must be a slut!" if I was getting so much attention from the opposite sex. She would say that men only wanted one thing from women: "Sex". It was hard to grow up in a house hold like this. I was really confused about men and their intentions because my experiences with my guy friends were great.
My mother is old fashioned and set in her ways, but I feel that she is not far off from some of the opinions of people shown in FLYING. I think it comes from her lack of association and normal relationships with men that has skewed her notion of the true nature of ALL men. I see similarities in the judgment of women in cultures that strictly define the limits of man and woman. Women must have little contact with men until they are married, otherwise they are considered to be up to no good.
