When shopping for clothes, my mother and I have always disagreed on what fits me well. To me, if it zips (拉上拉链), it fits. My mom, however, usually says I need a bigger size.
When I was a teenager, I wanted to dress like my friends, but my body size made it impossible. When my mom told me something didn't suit me, or that I needed a bigger size, all I heard was that my body was wrong.
To avoid arguments, we stopped going shopping together. This continued until I got engaged (订婚) and needed to find a wedding dress.
I could have just bought it alone, of course, but my mom is my favorite person to hang out with. The idea of looking for a wedding dress without her seemed as scary as taking her with me.
And so the day came. As I tried on a simple white dress, I saw tears in my mom's eyes. "You look beautiful," she told me. Nothing could have shocked me more.
This one didn't zip up at the back and I did actually need a bigger size, but my mother didn't say that. She just told me how beautiful I looked. At that moment, all those arguments we'd had while shopping in the past were laid to rest. We didn't buy a dress that day. We decided to see more, which I would never have predicted. A few weeks and many shopping trips later, we found the perfect dress. And during those few weeks, my mom and I also found the perfect fit for our shopping relationship.
