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to be annoyed with my mother ...

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oldwomanwholivedinashoe · 04/05/2008 17:55

About 3 months ago dh and i were invited away with a group of friends for one of our friens for a 40th bday celebration. It was friday and sat eve. we asked my mum if she would have children for the weekend - she said yes although i could tell she wasnt pleased about the idea. A day later she rang and said that she would have them for one night but not 2 so we could choose fri or sat. i said ok could she dot he sat please. she said yes and said tell her the actual date nearer the time. since then I have asked her if she's still alright with this about 4 times - she always said yes and ive always mentioned date. Last weekend she asked me when it was agin and I told her. she said it was still ok.
then this morning she said 'when is it?' 'oh i cant do it after all im working'
i know that she def is working so this is not made up. she offered to do friday night nistead but its not possible for us to cahnge.
I just said that i wish shed let me know before id paid and she said she was really sorrya nd felt guilty.
My auntie is doing tit insted so we can still go but im really pissed off with my mum. she lives 0.9miles away and we hardly see her. she does nothing for us and is consdtantly doing things like this to us.
sorry to go on...

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Thankyouandgoodnight · 06/05/2008 08:38

YANBU at all!!

My mum is like this - has one thing in her head but behaves a different way in practise - ie wants to help, thinks she can and then promptly just doesn't. Or on her terms which invariably is when help just isn't needed.

Suffice to say, she gets offered free access to 'granny time' with DD but rarely sees her (she always visits for 3 hours at a time when DD sleeps for 2 of them). She just isn't in my pot of people to ask if I seriously need help - it makes it so much easier.

oldwomanwholivedinashoe · 06/05/2008 18:04

that's exactly it 'thankyou'. she wants to help but it's all on her terms - when she can 'afford the time' which is usually when I dont need it! Do you another crazy thing ... she is a counsellor - she actually helps other people to deal with their problems
to give her credit she did pop round after work tonight to see if id heard any more about my job. But, she also said ' i dont know why i bother coming round - the children aren't bothered!' The woman is a constant source of bewilderment to me! i guess the lesson from all this is that we wont be such awful mothers ourselves?

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Thankyouandgoodnight · 06/05/2008 21:26

They could be sisters - my mum is in a counselling kind of role too!

It's quite curious isn't it. You can't of course have it out with them because they just get roaringly upset, don't change and don't see what the issue is anyway!

pinkyminky · 07/05/2008 14:47

It doesn't suprise me that your mum is a counsellor- my mum is a EXPERT on what everyone else is doing wrong with their lives!

oldwomanwholivedinashoe · 07/05/2008 17:46

so good to know that others have bizarre mothers also.

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