I’m not very close to my mum but I’m an only child so I need to try and make it nice for her. She wasn’t very nice to me growing up and I left home at 18. I live locally and see her most weeks.
I have arranged 2 lunches out - one with my very small family and one with her 3 friends. I imagine I will be paying for these. I will also get flowers and a cake. I have bought a couple of small things to open (booze!) but I need to get her a present. However she has no interests / hobbies. She has never been on the Internet and doesn’t want to learn. She has an old mobile phone for emergencies only - no interest in anything technology related. She doesn’t even text her grandkids. She watches a lot of TV. She lives rurally and doesn’t drive any more. She has high blood pressure so no treats (I have already bought booze and ordered a cake so I will be in trouble) and an old foot injury which means she doesn’t like to walk very far. She doesn’t like gardening. She basically watches TV all day.
At the start of Covid I bought her some DVDs but they are still in the wrapper. She literally has no interest in anything. (I think she’s depressed but that’s a whole other thread). She has been single since my dad left her over 30 years ago.
Friends have bought their mums weekends away, theatre tickets, iPads, etc. But I am really stuck!
She keeps saying she doesn’t want anything.
Thank you for reading!