So I am about to start a blog, purely for fun and for mental health reasons.
Up until now my semi estranged mother has been my biggest rah rah rah supporter for me to get it started since the stories I have to tell are actually rather funny at times.
But, now that I have sent her the first entry which starts of with explaining how I became to be half from a different country i.e. How my parents met; she has turned around and said she does not want me to write about that at all.
I have been very complimentary about her in the sketch that I have written. Because it is a sketch in which my parents are more portrayed as cartoon characters - her as the innocent young beautiful model and my father with the throbbing red Jaguar E-Type with the registration number spelling out VULTURE in her language sporting a pornstar moustache.
Her version is obviously very different and includes years of heart ache and I do understand that.
But what she must understand is that my version also does exactly that. Her choices affected my life and it was the choices that she made after the divorce that caused our estrangement. So the fact that she did not bad mouth my father has no baring on that.
And the next chapter she will most definitely not like either then will she? Because that will be Husband number two and he really was a mean old bastard.
But once again my intent will be to skate over the bad bits and make light of it without exactly hiding the truth.
Who is she to edit my life? She already asked me to unfriend and break contact with a cousin because it linked back to her sister, and I did, no problem.
After the first two chapters she will disappear anyway. I left her and the country behind. And I very much doubt that anyone in her home country would ever bother reading a blog in English. I'm not that bloody clever!
So, my AIBU is this - am I being unfair to my mother to write a funny story about how she met my father when it led to divorce and made her very sad?
Oh and I said the car was Red - the car was apparently White, it only turned red later etc etc etc etc etc
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When does a story become my story too?
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SlipperTastic · 20/06/2018 12:41
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