I'll start by saying my DM is a massive whinger. She never stops, is very much a glass half empty kind of person and it's usually about something stupidly trivial. I've had to listen to this my whole life.
So here's the thing, she hates it when I or my DF need to let off steam about something. We usually get a snappy and curt responses like "well, what do you expect me to do about it?". Well we don't really want you to do something about it, we just what to let off steam and have someone to sound off to. Like you do with us ad nauseum
So at the moment I'm having afew issues with work. Nothing I'll bore you here with, but stuff that is getting me down. I'm single so don't have a DP to whinge to, so today I was complaining to my DM. She just wasn't interested, and I got the standard 'well what do you want me to do about it?! and 'well get another job then' (because it's obviously easy to do that and jobs grow on trees don't they?).
It's always been like this. Going back to my teens, even expressing an opinion wasn't allowed. Well it was, providing it was the same as hers.
AIBU to think if she can whinge for Britain in my company then I can have a bit of a moan about work problems and expect her to be sympathetic.
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To wonder why my Mum doesn't like it when I have a moan or complain about somethijg
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Runny · 03/02/2017 17:23
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