To hate my mum's bragging

[Loustew12]

So, I'm 39 married with two kids. My mother is a typical narcissist but I tolerate her for the sake of the family. However, as she's getting older, her bragging has become intolerable. ALL her stories are full of 'he's a doctor/consultant/lawyer'. The story itself is usually really mundane and boring and only told so she can drop in that she knows a doctor. She does it all the time and it is so cringe. How are we supposed to respond? I couldn't care less what someone's job is and neither could my other half. I'm not sure I can keep my mouth shut for much longer.

I'm sorry I can't offer any useful advice, but I can empathise.

My mother is a narcissist as well and - despite having no particular talents herself and no friends that have ever tolerated her for very long - is full of boasts about who she knows and how popular and admired she is.

I made the terrible mistake of going on holiday with her a few years ago. She insisted on travelling business class and re-mortgaged her house to pay for it, because she wouldn't otherwise have been able to afford it. As we boarded the plane, she carried on in a large braying (she thinks "upper-class) voice about people in "cattle-class" and how she would hate to have to sit with "the great unwashed"...

People were looking at us with unconcealed contempt, but she was completely oblivious.