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WhateverMate · 02/11/2023 09:57

LNY1986 · 02/11/2023 09:54

Omg the other articles!

She needs serious mental treatment, and the daughter needs to move to Australia!

I think the media needs to ignore the silly cow and stop indulging her '15 minutes of fame'.

SisterMichaelsHabit · 02/11/2023 10:00

LNY1986 · 02/11/2023 09:54

Omg the other articles!

She needs serious mental treatment, and the daughter needs to move to Australia!

Nobody is this gullible.

pontipinemum · 02/11/2023 10:01

The woman is mad!

80sMum · 02/11/2023 10:03

🤣🤣🤣 That's the Daily Mail for you! Take a mundane nonentity of a "story", add extra ingredients, put a load of icing and cherries on the top and serve it up to the readers. I hope the readers remembered to add a very generous pinch of salt before consuming!

readingismycardio · 02/11/2023 10:05

I provide solutions to the problems she doesn't even know she has.

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

SoupDragon · 02/11/2023 10:10

NotTerfNorCis · 02/11/2023 08:56

It's obviously been written up by a Mail journalist to show her in the worst possible light. No way is that her voice. I'm betting the journalist embellished it.

There is no tone/voice that would make the actions acceptable though.

SoupDragon · 02/11/2023 10:10

I think the long suffering look in the husband's face says it all

Conkersinautumn · 02/11/2023 10:12

I feel like a LOT of parents might slide into this level of surveillance of their children. I see so many who still have their children's phones tracking them when they're at university (they are adults), who go away on regular holidays with their adult children, who live close to their children and are leaned on for childcare so they have full access to their lives, fully versed in their financial situation. This overbearing method of parenting or kids that have failed to actually get out on their own (perhaps) seems fairly common really. I think a lot of parents haven't considered their 'exit' from their children's day to day lives.

dutysuite · 02/11/2023 10:25

The daughter is a fool to herself.

ManateeFair · 02/11/2023 10:29

Did the mother also pick out the daughter's clothes in that photo, because the daughter is 33 and dressed like she's 70

SinnerBoy · 02/11/2023 10:34

Ah.

Samantha "Life's so Hard Because I'm so Beautiful That Men Give me Credit Cards and pay for my Holidays" Brick....

HarpieDuJour · 02/11/2023 10:38

ChickenJeffrey · 02/11/2023 09:20

As told by Samantha Brick, at the top. Definitely fake.

Didn't she write some crap about how superior she is and how her husband is an amazing aplha male? Perhaps something about thinking she is the most beautiful woman alive?

So totally credible, then.

MargotBamborough · 02/11/2023 10:41

That can't be real. Surely.

TheCatterall · 02/11/2023 10:42

I know which media group the journalist and Emma are in - Emma often puts herself forward to various journalists for sensationalist stories quite often there’s a fee - more if you do a photo shoot. Sometimes they even provide the clothes to dress folks up to present the image they want. The latest one she has put herself - and daughter forward for is about her getting more ‘action’ than her daughter.

Imagine having this woman as your Mother/MIL !!
beatrix1234 · 02/11/2023 10:53

I love how people post Daily mail articles thinking it's all real and stuff.

notacooldad · 02/11/2023 10:54

But also, I have a pretty low opinion of the daughter going along with this, especially when it comes to her children.
I wouldn't I would think that she has had a whole life of this and it's pretty normal to her.

Yalta · 02/11/2023 10:54

My mother over the years growing up put a stop to anything I ever wanted to do. Her constant criticisms about everything I said and everything I did and wanting to know where I was at all times meant she never knew where I was as I would tell her any old BS. I left home at 16 to live in a flat share. She broke in one day and cleaned the place then screamed blue murder at me for living in filth and her HAVING to round to clean for me.
I too got married at 17 and moved 300 miles away and didn’t give my forwarding address

This woman’s behaviour sounds more like a creepy stalker

It isn’t sweet and it isn’t kind to offer solutions to problems your children don’t know they have. It is not being a good parent to step in so much.

How will they know how to do anything if you do it all for them.

How will they figure out anything on their own if they are not allowed to.
She is taking away from her dds life and making it her own.

As a daughter in this situation I would have got some cream paint and returned the kitchen to the original colour

If this daughter doesn’t put up boundaries then she is heading for a very unhappy life.

CornishClott · 02/11/2023 10:55

Mine told me that my HB belongs to her , he is hers and she could make him do what ever she wanted, Nope. Very very long story short . She's out of our lives and she has only herself to blame .

CatMadam · 02/11/2023 10:58

@PumpkinsAndCoconuts

‘And why is the DM even printing such nonsense?’

Printing nonsense is the entire point of the daily mail, to be fair

thebellagio · 02/11/2023 11:01

@TheCatterall I'm on the same group as you - I remember seeing that post

stillplentyofjunkinthetrunk · 02/11/2023 11:31

this woman desperately needs counselling, probably let's face it both of them.

But what the daughter most urgently needs is new door locks.

CandyLeBonBon · 02/11/2023 11:37

My mum would be like this if I let her. She's already a much milder version (she actually rearranges my furniture when she comes up/tracks flights and CONSTANTLY texts me for updates etc, and constantly 'reminds' me of things I already know about and have in hand 'because she cares')

It's stifling and suffocating and I'm constantly having to reinforce boundaries because otherwise she'd utterly smother me.

so I'm not surprised there are more extreme versions around!

WestwardHo1 · 02/11/2023 11:41

I don't believe for one second this woman wrote this article. It would have been dreamt up by some editor somewhere who told his/her researchers to go and find a story that loosely matched the description and then edited beyond all recognition. They will have also put the women in those godawful dresses.

This is how the Mail operates.

WinkyTinky · 02/11/2023 11:42

Every morning my husband wakes me with a cup of tea and a hand what? 😳😂

TravelInHope · 02/11/2023 11:49

Just an exaggerated story made up for the DM.