How Role Strain and Role Conflict Operate My Life

I think two of my major roles in my life are being a girlfriend of a relationship of 9 years, and being a daughter. It is one of the things early in my life, I learned I really had to manage well because I love my mom more then anything; she’s my best friend- but my boyfriend is now also my best friend. Finding time to balance both of them can be a hard task, my boyfriend still to this day gets a tiny bit jealous if me and my mom are going out to dinner, or on a wine tasting. This is because he loves to do those things with me as well- but recognizes I need my quality time with my mom. Right now I’m not working and I don’t have many friends- my best friend lives 3 hours away but two years ago when I was working balancing my work, my boyfriend, my mom, and taking time to drive the distance to see my friend at times seemed impossible. My mom likes to explain it like your one of those plate twirlers with all these plates up in the air your trying to balance and when work is involved especially you can’t let that plate drop! Or any for that matter but thankfully in a relationship/friendship sense I have people around me who understand my alone time is extremely important to me.