I never understood the idea that you're supposed to mellow as you get older. Slowing down isn't something I relate to at all. The goal is to continue in good and bad, all of it.
My mother was a listener. I'm a talker. I'm very comfortable talking.
As a parent I provide all I can, but I think in the best possible scenario you need to have a man.
I drink red wine on ice to water it down.
I had a career and I came to motherhood late and am not married and have never had such a trusting relationship with a man - and trust is where the real power of love comes from.
I said I would never go to a psychiatrist, and I spent much of my life in psychoanalysis.