Active discussions

Please or to access all these features

Talk
AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Original poster

Does anyone else have a bully as a mother

29 replies

Cottoncandy1983 · 17/08/2025 22:29

I'm just wondering if anyone else feels that their mother is a bully.....

OP posts:
Richiline · 17/08/2025 23:30

Yes mine is. What kind of things does your's do?

EBearhug · 17/08/2025 23:25

It gets easier once they're dead...

Original poster
Cottoncandy1983 · 17/08/2025 23:10

namechangetheworld · 17/08/2025 22:40

Yes. Criticised non-stop throughout childhood even though I was probably the most bookish, boring child on the planet. Hardly a hellraiser. My self confidence has always been completely through the floor as a result and will now never recover.

I now only see her for approximately ten minutes a week (when ushering my children out of her house as quickly as possible) so she now has to fit in a weeks worth of nasty insults into that ten minute slot which is quite a remarkable feat - your hair looks greasy, the children aren't dressed suitably, what were you thinking when you bought those shoes, why did you let DD get her hair cut so short, why are you pulling that daft face at me... etc etc etc. She literally follows me around the house desperately trying to get a reaction. It's almost comical at this point.

I can understand that completely, they have a very unique way of always making us feel we are not good enough.

I'm sorry you go through that.

OP posts:
namechangetheworld · 17/08/2025 22:40

Yes. Criticised non-stop throughout childhood even though I was probably the most bookish, boring child on the planet. Hardly a hellraiser. My self confidence has always been completely through the floor as a result and will now never recover.

I now only see her for approximately ten minutes a week (when ushering my children out of her house as quickly as possible) so she now has to fit in a weeks worth of nasty insults into that ten minute slot which is quite a remarkable feat - your hair looks greasy, the children aren't dressed suitably, what were you thinking when you bought those shoes, why did you let DD get her hair cut so short, why are you pulling that daft face at me... etc etc etc. She literally follows me around the house desperately trying to get a reaction. It's almost comical at this point.