"You could pass for sisters!"

 Hi there

I've never been able to understand why it's said so many times to adult mothers and their adult daughters:  "Wow, you could pass for sisters..."

While the mother is preening, isn't the daughter silently seething?  I know I would be.

Does the person who says the phrase never, for one moment, think how much the daughter is hurting?  For goodness sake, her mother is 50 whilst she, the daughter, is only 18.

The daughter thinks that surely she doesn't look 50?  Yikes, that's half a century!  I mean 50, to this young woman, is sooooo ancient.  She's mortified that anyone could think her being anywhere near that age.

She wants to run home to her bedroom and hide under the duvet for the rest of her life.

Mum, of course, is oblivious to all this inner torment.  It's been intimated she could pass for somewhere around her daughter's age. And that's enough for her...