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Babies identify with their mothers.
Normally girls continue to do so while boys learn to identify with their fathers. As you work on building healthy relationships with persons of the same sex, allowing them to meet the needs for love, dependency, security, and identity which should have been met when you were a child, be patient with yourself and with them. It takes between ten and fifteen years for such needs to be met in a child's life. While your adult status may allow you to speed up the process somewhat, don't expect the work of years to be accomplished in weeks. Dear Father, Help me not to be consumed with impatience.