to find my mother really annoying

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is it normal for my mother to say directly that she's bored with the conversation and wants to talk about something else whenever we discuss something that's not about her dog, or her?

Yanbu.

Tell her to get farked.

Well yes, if your mum is a bit of a narcissist and only interested in herself or her dog .

sorry, meant to say YANBU. She sounds a bit batty.

No, but mothers being rude strange are not unusual. My mother very obviously changes the subject when she wishes to display her disapproval or if not just says, "well, I don't want to talk about that!". I'm not referring to matters personal to her, but to things like my decision to home ed or to let DD2 stay with my friends without me being there too.

My estranged stepmother, on the other hand, wouldn't dream of talking about her dog.

She was always far too busy talking about herself!

Let her start to talk about herself or her dog, then announce you are bored with the conversation and want to talk about something else.

That'll learn her

Yes.

If you are some kind of secret sibling I didn't know existed.

If you are from anyone else's family but mine - no, it's completely farking mental.

Well that feels better then. It's just that she's always been like that and I start to wonder if I'm being intolerent, but it's so irritating when I'm having an interesting chat with my dad and she butts in to say she's bored.

Oh, my mum's like that. EVERYTHING is about her.

Every conversation has to be about her. Every action by anyone will be calculated to illicit some response from her, even mine, when to be honest, she normally couldn't be further from my mind.

Sigh.

Mine talks ad nauseum about various elderly friends most of whom are called Betty or Doris. No amount of bored looks and lack of response gets through to her. What I want to say is that I'm interested in hearing about her & dad, not some bloody 80 year old I've never met and don't care about.

They're coming to stay in two weeks. I wouldn't mind but I really want to talk to my dad but no one else can get a farking word in.

I get to hear about Ron and his Dog ad his flaky skin condition. Also a woman at slimming world who looses more than my Mum every week.

Ha - does your mum describe them by their ailments eg "Pat with the cancer"?

With mine it's always "guess who has cancer" and with MIL it's "you won't believe who is dead."
And if I tell her about something my DD has done she counteracts with a story about her dog!