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falconrising · 26/07/2018 11:01

My mother has been staying. Aibu or am I being too sensitive?

We've never had a good relationship . Most of my childhood was spent taking the piss out of me for being conscientious with my school work, wanting to stick to the rules and being very very anxious.

She lives several hundred miles away and I stopped visiting her years ago as it was a lot of hassle with babies and toddlers and everything was on her terms, which made life with very young kids really hard work. (I.e. Let's go to this place for the day where there's no opportunity for naps, nothing to interest the kids , and a long travelling time).

She invites herself to our house. Since she's been here I've been organising days out for her and the kids, and trying to do fun things for us all, whilst also keeping up with work (I work from home) in the evenings. she's spent most of the time we're at home in her room or playing on her iPad, and is never very interested in chat with me. Thankfully a few visits ago I told her no piss taking, no jokes at my expense, and she's stuck to it.

She seems so uninterested in our lives, I don't know why she bothers coming up. She's barely interacted with the kids except reading them one story.

She's done her usual of eating all the snacks and booze and leaving the tiniest amount in the packet so she doesn't actually finish it, and leaving food smears over the kitchen and fridge.

I'm so tired of it all. Aibu or just over sensitive?

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falconrising · 27/07/2018 18:51

@ItLooksABitOff gods sake Angry I think I'd totally lose it. I really don't think I could handle 8 days. You did the right thing in saying no, as someone said here to me, you don't owe her these visits. Until she can show respect and consideration for you, your house is not open. She's not showing it to you, so why should you reciprocate?

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falconrising · 28/07/2018 10:52

Message sent to her mid day yesterday, still no response. Pretty likely she's read it as she's always on her phone/iPad. Wondering whether I'll get a response at all, or whether this is it? Or maybe contact from another family member saying how unkind I am. Who knows?! I'm off out for a fun day with DH and the kiddies anyway!

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falconrising · 28/07/2018 11:04

Just discovered that she's eaten special food that we brought back from holiday as treats for the kids and tried to hide the evidence. She's sneaked some out of the top of several different packets, and left it so it looks like she's not opened the packets. They were bought as treats for the kids. She knew this. What she didn't know was that I knew how many were in each packet. Just another irritating bullet point to add to my list

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ItLooksABitOff · 31/07/2018 20:40

wow. I mean I'm not surprised but WOW.

Got a PA email saying they could no longer visit now they can't bludge off us for 8 days. Huge relief.

falconrising · 31/07/2018 20:56

Jeez, that's low to use a PA. what a relief though . Phew!

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