Abstract

This study was conducted to understand the life experience and its meaning of middle-aged daughters’ emotional cut-off from their mothers. For this study, a total of three middle-aged married daughters in emotional cut-off with their mothers were participated. Applying data collection and analysis of Clandinin and Connelly's narrative inquiry methods, five inquiry steps were performed: 'being in the field', 'from field to field text', 'composing field text', 'from field text to research text', 'research text composing“ The meaning of the emotional cut-off with their mothers was ‘emotional cut-off chosen by anger' 'sadness between I-Thou and I-it' 'The Life Club made by self' 'living as an existential being' and 'living with one's mother existing inside'. The results of this study can be used for more efficient intervention in family counseling for mothers and daughters by understanding the experiences of emotional cut-off between mothers and middle-aged daughters.