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How Your Mother Wound Sabotages Your Romantic Relationships [Ep. 44]
Episode 4421st November 2025 • Mother Daughter Relationship Show • Brittney Scott
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How Your Mother Wound Shows Up in Your Romantic Relationships

Do you keep attracting the same type of partner? Find yourself doing all the emotional work in relationships? Struggle with trust, intimacy, or constantly choosing people who can't meet your needs? Your mother wound might be running the show in your love life. Your relationship with your mother is your first relationship template, it's where you learned what love looks like, what connection feels like, and what you can expect from people who are supposed to care about you. Whether you're single and keep repeating painful patterns, or already in a relationship and realizing how your mother wound has shaped your dynamic, this episode will give you the awareness and tools you need to create the love you actually deserve.

With this episode you'll be able to:

  • Understand how your relationship with your mother became your first relationship template
  • Identify specific ways your mother wound influences who you choose as a romantic partner
  • Recognize how childhood patterns create your attachment style and relationship behaviors
  • Learn why "chemistry" might actually be trauma recognition, not healthy attraction
  • Discover the seven practical steps to break painful relationship cycles
  • Understand what healthy love actually looks like and feels like
  • Assess whether your current relationship can heal and grow or needs to end
  • Practice asking for what you need and creating new patterns with a willing partner

Don't forget you can submit your questions about mother wounds for me to answer in future episodes!

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Mentioned resources:

  • The Mother-Daughter Relationship Show podcast
  • Mother wound healing therapy and coaching
  • Inner child work resources
  • Attachment style therapy and support

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mother wound, romantic relationships, dating patterns, attachment styles, mother daughter relationship, anxious attachment, avoidant attachment, partner selection, emotional unavailability, parentification, relationship patterns, childhood trauma, generational trauma, healing mother wound, healthy relationships, setting boundaries, inner child work, therapy, relationship coaching, Brittney Scott, mother daughter podcast, breaking cycles

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