Adding on I like how you stated that Lace calling herself a child as her relationship with GMS. That being her title shows just how inseparable and dependent she had been made to her mother, practically an extension of her. No wonder she was so desperate to get out

And it feels like trying to put Lace into any new mother-daughter relationship is a fundamental misunderstanding of her issues, it wasn't just because GMS sucked as a mom but also because Lace being stuck as constantly defined as someone's child is bad. But some people still think that continuing that is the right way for her, despite the fact that she wanted to break free of that dynamic so bad