I know your reply to me is well meant, however I never knew my mother. She abandoned me and my father when I was about 10 months old. I was raised in an all girls Catholic boarding school and saw my dad on weekends and holidays. So I never had a family in the traditional sense. So no. My mother never taught me anything. The nuns most definitely were not substitute moms. Although they gave me a good school education, they taught me nothing about the world outside that place. I had to stumble through it all on my own.
Oh, I am so sorry. I really put my foot in my mouth! Please forgive.