The emptiest nest

...Sometimes I can't believe that my daughters have been gone for so long ...14 years. My adult life started at 17 when my first daughter was born. My second daughter was born when I was 20. After leaving a very dysfunctional family and two failed marriages, I became a single parent at 21. I moved away from my family and was determined to protect my daughters from the craziness I had been exposed to and started raising them single handedly without any support from anyone.

My world revolved around my daughters and the three of us grew up together. We had some hard times, but somehow I managed to keep us together. I did everything exactly opposite to the way my mother had done it. I never dreamed that they would grow up with so much resentment toward me that we can't even have civil relationships with each other. I don't understand???

I feel so alone and I wonder if I'm the only mother in the world who has difficult or nonexsistant relationships with adult daughters?

I am interested in talking to you, my experience is almost the same