Looking for Perspective on Co-Parenting

My GF and I have a 1.5 year old daughter who lives with her mom and Grandma two hours away from where I work. After many months of on and off and trying to make things work, we have broken up because we can't seem to get along for more than a day. We always end up bickering and fighting with each other, our goals are so out of sync.I recently bought a house 30 minutes away from where my GF lives for use on the weekends for now since I am looking for a job to relocate. We have planned out to alternate weekends where I would get to have my daughter from 8am Saturday to 5pm Sunday every other weekend.Last weekend was the first weekend that we tried it out and my daughter slept over Sat night. It was great I think we had a great time and to me she seemed happy and did not wake up crying for Mom in the night like I feared. However, during the week my GF told me that she was very clingy and did not want to be alone asking for her Grandma or my GF's attention. To me it makes sense since she it was the first time trying out the situation. What I can't understand is that they are flipping out that she was so clingy! To me it seems they are concerned that something happened while with me.I can understand that this adjustment can take some time. Today I was over my GF's house in the evening helping with some of my daughters stuff. I wanted to give her a bath before I headed back home. My GF then comes to the tub and tells me that I am smothering her and to give her some space while she is in the bathtub. This hurt me so much as my intentions was to interact with me daughter and play with her, to be close to her since its the way I feel loved from how my mother was with me. My GF pointed out that yesterday when I was giving her a bath I was also a little too close and too smothering which is why she brought it up as being a potential issue to her clinginess during the week. I really do not understand how this can be such a big issue if she is just a baby still and I am only trying to make my limited time valuable and memorable.It really sucks the situation we have but it is what we have to work with however, it hurts that I can't parent the way I want and its led me to take a step back with my daughter. Its very confusing because I am not sure if its just my ego or if my GF has a very extreme form of mothering that I clash with. via /r/Parenting http://ift.tt/2utYwVE