Arg... my MOTHER!

[A Carolina Chick]

Sounds like you need to tape record her and make the "Best of" tape. Actually, the "worst of" . It may open her eyes. If it doesn't ....she is a lost cause!

 

[PurpleChicken]

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After a day with my mom I need a bottle of vodka. I can SO relate with this post.

I've told my mom she is just like her mother and that just makes her SO MAD.
The she starts with the "I just can't talk to you" BS.

They don't even realize they are doing it.

 

[SterlingAcres]

My mother's a real gem too. :aww

 

[coffeelady3]

Are we all destined to become like our mothers? Man, I sure hope not!

 

[hooligan]

Oh how I feel your pain!
My mom is a real doom sayer, everything has to be bad or soooo much worse than it is.
She can go to the doctor for a sprained ankle and it will turn into a compound fracture...then to a full break. If you ask her why she isn;t in a cast and is walking fine she will start limping and say the doctor said she didn't need one. She makes up illnesses that she has to and tries to tell us (her kids) that we must have them too...like MS etc etc.

 

[PurpleChicken]

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Am I the only guy in this thread?? I hope to be more like my Dad.

My wife is becoming more like her mom every day.

 

[PotterWatch]

I am definitely like my mom to a certain extent (not too bad of a thing, imo), but lord help me; my husband becomes more like his Mother every day!!!!

 

[Smoky73]

I am so NOT my mother. She lets people push her around all the time and I do not. My mother lives across the country (In Rhode Island) and every time I talk to her its something else, she has illnesses, things are terrible, she is being evicted from her apartment yet again, her car is about to die, shes lost weight, cannot eat, stress too high. My brother and sister both still live at home and fight like cats and dogs, they totally hate each other and adds more stress on mom. They are both old enough to be gone but my brother cannot work so is kinda stuck.
Anyway, the bad thing is, I have had a solution to 99% of her problems for YEARS- she just needs to pack her things and move here. I had a rental, a vehicle and everything for her at one time...but NNOOOO. I didnt talk to her for like a year after that.
Now I just tell her, well, obviously you like living in misery so I cannot help you.
Truly, she must enjoy being miserable or she wouldnt still be doing it and making excuses why she cannot correct the problem. She has had option, she just chooses the wrong ones.
I suppose I should be glad she lives far away, she would probably drive me nuts too.

 

[Rosalind]

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No, my mother is the exact polar opposite of her mother, with one sole exception: obsessive-compulsive disorder is apparently inherited. So while her mother is extremely practical and thought that chickens, while a bit messy, were an economical idea, my mother figures that chickens are a dumb redneck thing and worst of all they cannot be cleaned with Formula 409.

They are both nuts, just in different ways. I'm trying to come up with my own creative way of being nuts that is orthogonal to both of them, as we've run out of dimensions to be merely opposites. Then we can all annoy each other to death.

 

[CarlaRiggs]

My Mother died when I was 13 years old.... forgive me if I write that you need to get a grip

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Carla