Thanks again, Marianne, for the follow-up. I am really looking forward to your piece on the topic. In our case, it's me who needs to make the leap even more than my son. My therapist supports my process and this helps. But she is a professional and I also trust her when she says that as the child grows and becomes more cognitively developed sticking to this type of very close attachment to his mom creates a gap between his real age and his emotional age. This gap leaves room for pathology which is something I tend to believe. This is why you're not even convinced that you want to go that far as to breastfeed beyond a certain age. Hence, that age when the child looks like he would be ready to wean off, is at some point the subject of general consensus among society at large. For our generation of mothers, this moved to be after two years old and it's still acceptable. Also, it varies from culture to culture. But regardless of how you put it, this needs to stop at some point as it is rather unpleasant to see a boy, for example, but also a girl, after a certain age. The question is, what is the "right" age?
Why is two years more acceptable than seven? What makes the difference?