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"I live in &amp;quot;How&amp;#039;s Your Mom?&amp;quot; World. Everywhere I go, everyone I see. &amp;quot;How&amp;#039;s your Mom?&amp;quot; &amp;quot;How&amp;#039;s your Mom?&amp;quot; &amp;quot;How&amp;#039;s Your Mom?&amp;quot; They are legitimately interested, not just being polite. At the coffee shop. &amp;quot;How&amp;#039;s Your Mom?&amp;quot; At the dentist. &amp;quot;How&amp;#039;s Your Mom?&amp;quot; It is almost as though she is traveling silently with me. When people see me, they see Mom. I am lucky and quick to reply, &amp;quot; he&amp;#039;s great!&amp;quot; &amp;quot;She&amp;#039;s great!&amp;quot; every time somebody asks. &amp;quot;She&amp;#039;s great!&amp;quot; to the pizza man. &amp;quot;She&amp;#039;s great!&amp;quot; to the librarian. &amp;quot;She&amp;#039;s great!&amp;quot; to the guy who cuts my lawn. Caregiving 101, Lesson One, is Don&amp;#039;t Lose Your Identity. But what can I say; I married my mom when I moved back to my hometown. It has been a long and peaceful relationship, which I cannot say about many relationships I have had.  And I know I&amp;#039;m codependent and the World&amp;#039;s Oldest Mama&amp;#039;s Baby and all of that. I can see the psychologists rolling their eyes right through the screen at me.  I am solid with my identity, though. I know the woman I am and I like her, admire her, even. And boy do we have fun!  It has not been without obstacles, getting to this place, and much of my self-respect has been earned in &amp;quot;How&amp;#039;s Your Mom?&amp;quot; World.  I like it here.  I think it&amp;#039;s great.   D.G. Fulford is the author of Designated Daughter: The Bonus Years with Mom, written with her mother Phyllis Greene. She is also the co-founder of TheRememberingSite.org. You can find her at DGFulford.com.  Photo credit: Marcia Smilack "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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