Absolutely not, she was always a tyrant. She may have had her reasons and occasionally had a touching moment (the episode where Reese was being bullied by a group of girls and she went after them). But she is an unbelievably controlling person. The series finale, she lays it all out, how she completely planned out her children's lives and careers because she "knows what's best for them". She actively makes their lives miserable because she wants them to "know what it's like." There was very little love from that woman.