Where do I start?
Mother: on telling her that I was advised to lose two stone in weight before I could begin IVF treatment, her reply was "well you'll never be a mother then"
On failing my first driving test aged 17, her answer was "all that money we wasted."
The day I moved in with my boyfriend who later became my husband, she gave him a "with sympathy" card.
The one time she had my (adopted) children overnight, she brought them home early the next day, stood them on the doorstep and when I opened the door she pointed at my daughter and told me "her hair stinks" (and she was a hairdresser)
While trying to get my children to come out from under her dining table as it was time to go home, she told them "don't listen to your mother, she's an idiot,"
At 16 she told me I was too thick for college and uni.
At my grandfather's funeral the crematorium usher shoved me into the second row, mother turned to me and hissed "you should be on this row". As it was a funeral I just shrugged my shoulders and kept quiet.
She wore slippers to my wedding reception and complained when guests turned up throughout the evening.
She told me who to invite to my wedding.
A guest who couldn't make the wedding gave her money to pass on to me, but instead, she spent it on what she thought I wanted (dining table seat cushions). When I explained that I was looking at new sofa cushions, she threw the seat cushions at my face and told me I was an ungrateful cow and could take them back to the shop and exchange them myself.
Twelve years ago, I went completely NC
Best thing I ever did. Yes, I miss having a mother figure and this past few years I've really, REALLY needed one, but not her. I've come this far without her, I'll carry on without her.