DEAR JANE: I am bitterly jealous of my own DAUGHTER... she is prettier, smarter and more intelligent than me - and I hate her for it

UK Daily Mail ^ | 6/4/23 | Jane Green

[DallasBiff]

To all you youngins out there, this Daily Mail "Dear Jane" article is a direct ripoff of "Dear Abby" and "Ann Landers" newspaper columns of the 60's and 70's.

The millenials and z'ers are probably asking themselves what is a "newspaper" and a column.

[PGR88]

It seems a bit contrived, and fake.

[pacificus]

That’s because you’re smart!

[ClearCase_guy]

I’ve seen this and it’s disturbing. Traditionally, parents want their children to have a better life than they themselves have had. But at least some people these days (in my limited experience it’s 100% the mothers) feel great jealousy and are in constant competition with their daughters, constantly wishing to beat them and crush them and show that Mom is smarter and prettier and cooler than their child. It’s a staggering sort of mental illness.

[Sacajaweau]

Ya think......lol

[gundog]

At least she’s not complaining that her daughter is younger than her.

[Veto!]

Actually, my mother hated me for being smarter than she was. I was a daddy’s girl.
She was, though, absolutely beautiful. Loved to tell me I wasn’t. Big sigh.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

'What does she have that I don’t?

I'll take an insane mother for $500, Alex.

[DannyTN]

This thread is useless unless the daughter is older than 18 and there are pictures.

[fidelis]

'What does she have that I don’t?

For beginners, probably a healthy self-esteem and a normal state of mental health.

[nwrep]

It seems too well crafted to be organic, and seems designed to make a point.

[enumerated]

Smarter AND more intelligent?

[Jonty30]

It’s actually not uncommon for a mother to be jealous of her daughter, if the mother has unresolved teen issues and the daughter just happened to be more blessed than the mother.

[SamAdams76]

Women hate it when their daughters end up better looking than them.

On the other hand, men love it when their sons end up being more handsome and better with the girls then they were.

[joethedrummer]

‘What does she have that I don’t?“

- A selfish, pathetic mother.

[I want the USA back]

The letters are written by the columnist.

[Farmerbob]

Sleep with her boyfriend. That will even the score. /S

[DallasBiff]

It seems a bit contrived, and fake.

Yes it was, but you would not believe how popular those newspaper columns were.

Ann Landers in the morning paper, Dear Abby in the evening, and they were biological sisters.

Myself as a kid could care less, the thing that made me mad, was we were trying to house train a puppy, with newspapers, all around the house, well I always looked forward to the comics, and laid the paper on the floor, and the great dog we had pissed on my favorite comic, "Nancy".

[outofsalt]

Narcissistic mother better save up for a lonely old folk’s home.

[Bernard]

I thought this sounded familiar, except the first time it started with, “Dear Penthouse,”