everything my mother says pisses me off

[TwigorTreat]

because she's a selfish, unthinking prat at times

god bless her

can u have a break from your mum a bit as i do that sometimes i have a break from her for a week...by then im missing her!

I have a terrible relationship with my mum too, sympathy.

Mine is negative and critical in the extreme and I don't think she's said Well Done to me in my entire life. She STILL goes on about me saying, when I was about five, "I'll make you cry again" - ffs, let it fking go woman, I'm nearly 41 and I don't remember it! Oh and she sides with my sisters in any argument, they can do no wrong while I am bitch extraordinaire. Sympathy.

When I said dh had asked me to marry him she said "well, what do you want me to say?"

Er, congratulations? Maybe?

We must be long lost sisters Twig

what's yours done Twig?

god a break from your mum making you miss her? If I have to talk to mine once a week it is much too much

well this morning when I was explaining reasons why I couldn't join DH in Barcelona for a couple of days she suggested I took the kids .. which wasn't the point .. and I said that despite it being school time I didn't want to be stuck in hotel / foreign city on my own with 2 young kids whilst DH was in meetings all day ... she suggested she would come with me

and then when I told her about a 'celebration of life' party we were going to she said 'that's a very strange idea'

she's just weird in an amusing sort of way

haven't talked to my mother for a month .. last time but one we talked she called me 'strange' and said 'you aren't a proper member of the family, are you?' .. see, weird

franny .. share some corkers

www ... sounds like our mums might be 'cut from the same cloth' ... sympathies

Oh I don't know

we are not entirely speaking to her at the moment

I know this will make you snort with schadenfreude, but she bought ds a toy sword and gave it to him when I was not around - in the middle of a big family party so designed to make my shock and discomfort as public and difficult to handle as possible

then claimed she did not know I would mind

I ask you

could anyone spend 5 mins in a room with me, let alone be my mother for 36 years and NOT KNOW that I would mind ds being bought a toy sword?

Please can I claim to be a triplet? My mother has, among other things, suggested I made butter out of my breast milk (sadly, not joking...), got married for the thrid time, without telling me, and, oh, I could go on, but its saturday and why would I depress you all??!!!!

I would've known that franny

maybe the menopause makes one a touch deranged

oooh, just one corker, when ds1 was 3 weeks old, she said 'I hope he doesn't grow up to be a ""druggie"" ' (no drug takers in the family, so just a left field statement.....

a SWORD Franny? I've never met you and know it wouldn't go down well!

Twig, not a proper member, wtf is that supposed to mean?

Hi BTN!

3 weeks? lol!

Come again, Twig? Honestly, I can't see anything remotely odd about your mum from what you've posted.

I also think a celebration of life party is a bit queer. Either get 'em Christened, or don't.

She sounds like a human being to me

That's her job. I thought it was just my mum who was an utter loon (too may examples to describe here) but have come to the conclusion that it's part of the rich tapestry of mother/daughter relationships.

yeaaaas, I know!!!!! So worried I will end up like her - I give you all carte blanche to shoot me, if I ever come up to any of you while you are breastfeeding with a butter wrapper.....

I thought a Celebration of Life part would happen before you died, if you knew it was going to happen iyswim?

Have I got it wrong?

sorry to be clear it was a memorial party for a friend of ds not a naming thing

hence how her choosing to comment, and negatively, was kind of annoying

Oh well, at least I was at the right of life .

Oh, sorry Twig. In light of LaDiDa's post, I may have to offer an apology!

I just assumed it was about new life, not one recently passed.

Any how, honestly, she sounds kooky and good fun to be around.

Now, let's watch the RUGGER!

Sorry, have just realised how insensitive that post appears now.

God, I am being irritating. It's nerves due to the Rugby.

You know you love her. It comes out in the short OP. We learn from our parents ... in a thousand ways, most of them concerned with not being anything like them!

She's alive, she's there for you, and she's weird.

Which is exactly what a mother should be