What is one to do with Mothers?

[redhen]

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How does she cook?? Does she do windows?

 

[Catstar68]

redhen, when you get her can I come to dinner and watch?

 

[justbugged]

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Sometimes it is almost worth having a new story to tell. My SiL is very good for a new story or two if we let her.

 

[redhen]

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Hmm... So shes annoying then??
Well.. maybe i can keep her in the coop?? And she can clean it while shes there...

 

[redhen]

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I dont think it would be pretty,..

Although..i bet i can get her to believe i'm a little angel...

We can talk about Terrie the whole time...that'll get her to like me...

 

[Catstar68]

Tell her a 5th of Jack D. everyday will have the same effect!

No need to worry about those cancer germs...

 

[sheila3935]

You sound like me 10 years ago. Basic same situation with your sister and mom. I finally got tired of it Told my mom I love her and thank you for raising me the way you did cause you made me the strong person I am today and then told her I am an adult and until she can treat me as such I will not do anything else for her. For 2 weeks I didnt go by call or accept her calls then she appoligized and we have a great relationship now. Took me turning 40 and standing up for myself to get it. Hope you find peace in your situation and know that you have done nothing wrong.

 

[downstownlady]

OMG...That sounds exactly like me and my Mother's relationship...except after taking care of my Dad whom she spent 50 years hating publicly and openingly humiliating finally passed away this past October...I was there to witness him taking his last breath at home under hospice care that I insisted on (since I had power of attorney). She acted like her cold, usual self towards me unless there was someone she needed to act like she gave a darn. I was use to here narcisitic behavior...but never understood it until a therapist explained it to me. I finally had to decide what was best for me and my mental health and that of my family to cut the strings and leave her out of my life. My husband hated the way she treated me, and so with his support I am no longer burdened by her badgering and belittleing me, and especially my Father who is finally resting in peace...at least from her. My Dad and I were very close, and I know she resented it. But when I look at my maternal Grandmother and how she was, it is easy to see where she came by the "mean" gene. It is difficult to maintain a relationship with my neice, whom she and my Daddy raised from an infant. My Brother no longer talks to me for whatever the reason...probably because he had a different relationship than I did with my Mother. Talk about dysfunction, and this is the Reader's Digest version...Anyway...I digress...I feel for you, and I hope that your issues are easier to deal with than mine have been.

 

[zippitydooda]

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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt

This is one of my favorite quotes

Thanks sianara.... I knew it was something like that!

 

[vfem]

Its been peaceful without a phone call for a week today!

My sister thanked me on Saturday, apparently because I'm the hated child right now, she's been laying off my sister to complain about me!

How lucky are we both... my sister gets to leave in peace for a little while, and she's off yelling about how bad I am, and I don't even have to hear it!!!

My dad called my husband and the 2 of them are taking off to Rockingham next weekend to watch some races so my dad will be free of her too!!!!