aag

Never, really. I STILL occasionally drape myself across my mum for comfort - just far less frequently than I used to.
My need for Mom’s love and comfort is forever.

From my own experience, a daughter is never done reaching out to her mother for comfort, draping across her physically or emotionally…sometimes the mother decides that the uncomfortable position is not worth it any more.
And as much as I do not know you I believe your daughter will always feel that she can. :-)

Don’t worry too much.. my 13 year old daughter still does that to her mother regularly…. hell, my 18 year old son does it, too. You’ll be fine.

I visited my mom today, and I expressed the same thing by putting my arm around her shoulders (my mom’s about 18 inches shorter than me) and by letting her order lunch for us while I put a new stop valve in the basement toilet. Later, my oldest daughter took my hand when I reached back into the back seat. Yesterday, my younger daughter gave me a quick awkward hug, being careful not to let her chest touch me. A new friend reached out to me for help. An old friend felt secure in knowing she could turn her back and walk away from me and still be loved. We’re all doing that all the time in our own ways, if we have the depth to offer our selves. Get used to seeing it in it’s different guises and you will never want for that joy.

Mine still does it, even though she’s 20, and a head taller than me - she’s still all sticky-out bones, though :)

Never. Although we’re in different cities, I call my mom every day, and she’s the first person I call when I’ve got something to get off my chest, cause mothers know best!

I was quite excited on your behalf that you seemed to have found a Googlewhack *, so I checked it. Unfortunately, there are 2,030 other sites that include ‘ambulatory angularity’ :o(

* http://www.googlewhack.com/

It may not be a Googlewhack, but it’s the only place that phrase exists.

never. we may forget for a while how joyous the feeling is, but i think, somewhere within us, we still crave it.

While I never draped nor even hugged my mother, my daughter has always practiced mommy-drapery. She is 30 and still an avid practitioner of the art.

I think you’re in for years and years of daughter draping and maybe even grand-child drapes!

I have 2 boys and while they are both very affectionate with me, only in private of course, the younger one who is 14 loves to hug and kiss me and tell me I am his favorite Mom! I think its the personality of the child, more than anything else, and if she is like that with you now, more than likely she will be like that for a very long time….as long as you keep it private mom…sheesh!

Our 17 year old still does that, regularly. It just requires you to give them space and still nurture them, a difficult balance throughout the teenage years.

I’m 22 and still drape myself across my mother on occasion.
Definitely happened less in the teenage years, but never stopped entirely and has picked up again

The phrase ambulatory angularity doesn’t appear but the two words do appear together (seperated by a coma) on this site:

http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definition/UTLARY

If you scroll down to the +4 letters they’re there.

Wow, you all are lucky…. my 17 yr old daughter hasn’t draped herself across me in years just because…

I could have written what “Sooner” wrote above, except for the draping…. I give her plenty of space & nurturing, and it’s such a fine line to balance… but still no draping… usually I drape on her =) She knows I here…

i hope the day never comes .. regardless of how heavy and stinky my boys get.

Well, it must be well past 35 as I sit in my Mom’s lap every time the opportunity poses itself. :))

Hi AAG,

Don’t worry.

Moms? Forever.

XO

Chuck

I tell my boys (ages 21 and 18) that you’re never too old to hug your mother. They still do.

Hey, I *still* come up behind my mother and wrap my arms around her shoulder–draping and pressing against her. She’s mommy, and she shall always be. There was a time when I took a reprieve from parental contact (teen years!) but I came back. :)

Love the post.

I have found that My wife and daughters (16 & 13) haven’t lost that bond. I’m sure you will always have that bond.

I can’t stop wondering; is this the type of post that worries your parents. I wish they could see this, and realize why I like to visit with you and your family.

Thanks for allowing us into all (or most) of your life.

Were you a virgin birth, then? Or did some unspeakable naughtiness take place between your parents nine months beforehand? Make ‘em tell you *all* about it! ;o)

I have precisely zero experience with being a little girl feeling the need to drape herself across her mother; or the impulse to beging to change that behavior.

That said, I reckon it might happen the same time the old Electra complex begins to become an issue…

I’m 28, and although I don’t practice the drapery you speak of regularly, she’s always there as a sounding board for me. Having the ability to talk about “dirty things” with my mom was uncomfortable when I was in high school, but I was still able to get snuggles back then. Now that I am a grown woman I’m glad we can talk about vibrators and such, but I still need those regularly too.

Thanks for providing some vibrator insight, earlier miss aag ;)

Aag,

I just recently turned 22, and only left home for the first time at the end of February this year. Sometimes I drape, but what I miss the most about being so far away from my mum is the ‘mummy hugs’! There is nothing better than a mummy hug. Remember all those times as a kid when you were sick, and all you wanted was a mummy hug? Well, for me, it doesn’t end, ever. I will always want my mummy hugs.

Lucy

Hm.
That reminds me… it’s been too long since I draped myself over my mother.

I recently saw her do the same thing to HER mother, my diminutive grandma.

Time to go drape my mom…

(Oh. I’m 33)