6. A Self-Centered Culture:
Modern society places great importance on immediacy, personal fulfillment, and individual comfort. In this context, relationships that require patience, perseverance, and long-term commitment are often relegated to the background.
Maternal love—steady, predictable, and discreet—struggles to compete in a world that values novelty and constant stimulation. This doesn’t mean it’s worthless, but simply that it’s often overlooked.
7. The unexpressed injuries were transmitted forward.
An elderly woman is embraced by her adult son in the garden.
Many mothers were once daughters who felt invisible, devalued, or emotionally neglected. Having become mothers, they may unconsciously try to heal these past wounds by giving more than is reasonable, hoping to receive from their children what they themselves never had.
When a woman’s identity becomes entirely linked to motherhood
the human mind is programmed to perceive change, not permanence. What is always present, reliable, and unchanging often disappears from consciousness. Just as one forgets about air until one struggles to breathe, constant maternal love can go unnoticed precisely because it never fails.
Thus, the mother blends into the background – indispensable, yet invisible. Not because she is insignificant, but because her presence is taken for granted. This unconscious neurological pattern can generate a profound sense of worthlessness in the woman who tirelessly dedicates herself to her work.
