To ring her work and tell them she's a lying shitbag?

SandraDeesLeatherPants · 2017-09-13 10:28:15

My mother has just informed me she has been granted a six month sabbatical from work. Lovely! She's off to the Canaries on Friday and she plans to do a few craft projects around the house. She needs this break, apparently. don't we all How did she get it? She told her work that she needs time off to help me, her adult daughter, recover from an anorexia relapse. I am not, nor have I been, suffering from anorexia since I was 24 years old. I am now 32. I am fit and well and living in London, 200 miles not nearly enough away from her. What is laughable, as when I did have anorexia and was attending an outpatient clinic bi-weekly, she didn't want to know. She did not drive me to appointments. (I walked, it was four miles each way) she did not attend the joint therapy session. She did do the parents 'drop in' evening and came home in fits of laughter and doing impressions of the other parents who apparently needed to stop taking things so seriously. Her general attitude at the time was 'what do you want me to do, force you to eat?' Oh, and regale me with stories about June at work whose daughter had bulimia but was far more ill than me because she was an inpatient at a private clinic . Long story short, I got over it with the help of my then-boyfriend, and we moved to London, so I could be away from her. She's not much interested in me really except to have the odd dig, although she very much adores my brother, who has provided her with a grandchild, and stayed living close by, and is married even though he is younger than me, to a woman my mother affectionately refers to as the 'daughter she never had'. So, she had a meeting with her boss at work and has told her she needs to be able to go down to London at least twice a week or so or just whenever I need her to support me through this oh so serious relapse. I am skin and bone and could die don't you know, if I do not have her unwavering love and support There's nothing wrong with me. But since I do not visit my home town more than once a year if I can help it, it's likely that no one will know any different to what she's told them. I feel like calling her work and telling them. I'm livid. Oh, and what is her job? She works with VULNERABLE ADULTS. Ffs.

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