There was once a mother who felt
rejected when her children grew up and needed to separate from her. 
She felt hurt when they pushed
her away and no longer wanted all the love and caring that she wanted
to give them.
She thought, What's wrong with
me?
Encouraged by her friends, she
began to ask herself another question: What's right with me? The more
answers she found to that question, the better she liked herself.
The better she liked herself, the
more she was able to see her children's need to separate from her as
their own natural and healthy urge for independence, and not the result
of her shortcomings.
Our good points may seem
undesirable to others, but that's not our fault.
Sometimes, too much of a good
thing can be inappropriate, but that doesn't make it bad.
