Of course they love you. They'll probably always love you, it takes a lot to destroy a child's love for their parent. However, you haven't hit the front lines yet. You don't know what it's like to raise a teenager until you've raised them, that's all. Just wait until the first time one of them comes home all starry e over a guy you can't ing stand. That's where things get real interesting

Meh. . .we're taught to love our mom's. . .sue us

Yeah, but if you ask born again Christians, Catholics verge on goddess worshipers because they venerate the Virgin Mary.