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Julie Mayer is her mother's daughter in more ways than one. Both Susan and Julie are extremely compassionate, often putting other peoples needs before their own. They have a tendency to fall for troubled men and a hard time unraveling themselves from destructive relationships. But if anyone is the more level-headed of the two it is Julie, who tends to mother her own mother. Like many kids of single moms, Julie often feels more like Susan's friend than her daughter, which creates problems when Susan feels the need to assert who's in charge. When Susan and Karl got divoced,Julie found herself playing shrink, best friend and scheduler all at once-even arranging her own doctor's appointments. So when Susan becomes angry about Julie's realtionshipwith Zach, Julie challenges her for suddenly trying to "play the mom card."
The relationship between Julie and Susanis one of the most convincing and relatable on the show. Julie is a precocious teenager who even remembers the first time Susan and Mike "did it" because she made heart shaped pancakes the next morning. Julie is bright and self-sufficient and extremely mature for her age, but there are times we can see that she is really just a kid, a kid who's struggling with her parents' divorce, her emotionally needy mother, and her own adolescence. Wherever she goes in life, Julie is sure to develope into a smart, caring, and incredibly independent woman, not too different from Susan herself.
