Have you had a bad relationship with your mother?

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Perhaps the thing that has made the biggest impact in my life was my bad relationship with my mother. She wasn't abusive but she had issues, she was weak-willed, as well as ill-tempered and unforgiving, I felt like a burden to her growing up. The real sad part was that I thought or feared that this was somehow normal, and how all mothers treated their children, andI was being selfish or something, for wanting to believe that it was wrong for her to treat me this was. It was only later on, that a combination of finding wounds from my relationship with her, and a better understanding of ethics and basic psychology, that I realized that I really did have, a bad relationship with my mother. (And I also learned the hard way, that being right doesn't always feel good. Though I still had to relearn that lesson a couple of times in order for it to sink in.)

I was able to heal mostly though my Catholic Faith, after reverting I was able to develop a close relationship with Our Lady, and while it took a longtime, (from July 2016 to January 18th 2020 to be exact.) I was able to ultimately embrace Her as my Heavenly Mother.

So that's the basic overview of my mostly past issues with my mother, I can try to go into more detail on it if anyone is interested, though there may be a limit to how deep I can go. Does anyone else here have, or has had a bad relationship with his or her mother? How have you managed to cope with, or heal from that relationship?