To ask what you’d call this behaviour?

[LBirch02]

Immature? Narc?

I was 13 when this happened - it’s about my mum who’d have been 54 at the time.

It was a school night - a Tuesday I think - sort of midweek anyway. My mum cooked a dish which was savoury but had a sweet sauce - something that seemed very similar to Duck a l’orange but I think it was pork.
Anyway, the dish wasn’t a success - I couldn’t finish it.
This seemed to affect my mum very badly. I was sitting in the back room but i could hear Dad trying to placate my mum literally all evening in the front room.
My mum was at the time 54 but because she’d cooked a meal ‘wrong’ she went into quite a negative emotional state all evening where Dad was saying repeatedly “carol (not real name) don’t worry the orange in the sauce was a bit too strong that’s all” - all evening to try , as I say to placate her. AIBU to think this is a little unusual and immature for a woman of 54? They wouldn’t want constant placating, surely?

Class my mum not classy!!

Thanks NinjaExodus for your kind understanding words. Means a lot

OP - having read the post about your mum's alcohol issues I can also sympathise. My mum had problems all of my childhood and into my thirties. That day could still have been menopausal, but the drink could well have exacerbated it so the dinner became a huge event.