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What You Said: Your Mother's Best Relationship Advice

We asked you to share your mom's best advice on men — check out these words of wisdom.
Your Mother's Best Relationship Advice
Mother Daughter Mothers Day
By Charli Penn · Updated October 28, 2020
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The best advice comes from those with experience. When you become a woman, and begin to question matters of the heart, the women in your life offer little pearls of wisdom on relationships based on what they’ve learned throughout the years — especially your mom. Ask any woman what she knows about the rules of love, and she’ll probably tell you something her mother or grandmother shared with her. We asked you to pass along your mom’s best advice to share with your sisters here on ESSENCE.COM. Here’s what our readers had to say.