Mom-love is off the table. Get over it. Everyone reading this needs to hammer it through their forehead, deep into the brain meat:
Your wife is not your mommy. She will NEVER be your mommy. She will NEVER love you like your mother did. SHE IS NOT SUPPOSED TO. STOP MOURNING THE IMPOSSIBLE.
“Awww I wish my GF had 14” fox ears and a silky, bushy tail, it’s not fair awwwwwwwww” - I know, man. Box up that disappointment and mentally shoot it into the sun. It is what it is, stop trying to screw with these natural roles, it won’t make either you or your wife happy.
A woman will love you differently, and you should greatly prefer that. Because your wife’s love is a trophy, it’s earned in ways mommy doesn’t care about. Mom loves you because you’re HER, not just because you’re YOU. It’s not earned. It’s given.
But a damn good woman giving herself to you is a recognition of all your suffering, all your effort, a prize that YOU have snatched out of the jaws of fate yourself. A woman you actually want to love you is yours, not something free and easy. She’s something that everyone wants, but few deserve. That’s what’s so much more enjoyable about her. You don’t need her to put your head in her lap and sing you lullabies when your tummy hurts, because she’s got a whole different catalog of charming feminine actions to pull from that will make you forget all about that boring stuff.
RT: https://poa.st/objects/3f339e78-bbe5-467d-9a62-f1d7ec00743b