The greatest one - sons are men and daughters are women.
(Obvious, isn't it?)
All right, the question should rather be: Why is the relationship between a mother and her son so different from the one between a mother and her daughter?
Or, to put it more specifically, why, from a certain age, do sons get on with their mothers better than daughters?
The answer to this question is hidden in the genetically encoded roles of women and men. I believe that both men and women do have some genetically encoded information that tells them, to oversimplify, whether they should be hunters or keepers of fire. Biologically, this is influenced by the amount of hormones and what not.
Now, what I am getting to is that every girl is a potential mother. She knows this (unconsciously). And her thinking is designed so as to accommodate this role.
Therefore, unlike a son, a daughter can see through her mother's tricks. That is why the tricks do not work on her, and that causes friction in the relationship.
How simple, Mrs Watson.
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