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My mum's behaviour is really making me uncomfortable and worried - needing adviceplease

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Hoptastic · 05/12/2008 10:24

I have namechanged for this i am a very refular mner, i don't know if my mum still lurks on here, i don't think she does but you never know.

Anyway my mum is really making me uncomfortable with her flirty and inappropriate behaviour to any man over the age of 18 she meets.
We have a couple of hobbies that we do together and there are several men there all of them happily married but yet she will be all over them like a rash stroking them, making sexual innuendos in every scentence and these people are so obviously uncomfortable with it a couple of them have mentioned it to me!!!!

She does it to everyone delivery men/postmen/men online.

She meets men online and will give them her hame and number within minutes and meets them all over the country and im pretty sure she is sleeping with alot of them.

She doesn't have a partner she is widowed and i know she is lonley and i try to help her meet FRIENDS but she is only interested in boyfriends.

She is constantly talking to me about her sex life single and not single, i am not a prude by far but it makes me feel really uncomfortable, i have told her this but she finds it funny and laughs it off!

She is really filthy some of the stuff she has on messanger and things like her myspace status ' X wants to find someone to get dirty with tonight' she knows myslef and my sisters are on there and people from her work and it really makes me feel icky!

Im not sayig she shouldn't have a sex life thats fine but i don't to know about it!

Any advice on how to deal with it?

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malfoy · 05/12/2008 10:26

Is this a recent change in behaviour or has she always been like this?

Niecie · 05/12/2008 10:27

Has she always been like this?

How old is she?

If it is a recent change, there could be some underlying medical reason for this behaviour.

Hoptastic · 05/12/2008 10:28

I think she has always been like it but it has got worse, she is going through the menopause could that be contributing to it?

(sorry i know nothing about meopause so sorry if that was a stupid question!)

She has got past issues but she has never been like this so openly, my sisters and my brother are really getting upset by it to.

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norksinmywaistband · 05/12/2008 10:29

How old is she, could it be dementia, innapropriate behaviour is often a symptom

Hoptastic · 05/12/2008 10:29

She is in her 40's

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Hoptastic · 05/12/2008 10:30

i don't think its dementia she is fairly young to be getting that? (again i don;t know much about it) she has no memory problems or any other unusual behaiour she just says she is a woman who knows her needs.

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malfoy · 05/12/2008 10:31

I knew someone with Bipolar Disorder and when they had an episode they lost their inhibitions.

greenlawn · 05/12/2008 10:32

You could try posting in health - I think changes in behaviour/inhibition can be signs of a medical condition either physical or psychological.

I understand why you're worried - nothing wrong with sex but are you worried she's putting herself at risk?!

norksinmywaistband · 05/12/2008 10:32

Maybe she just sees this as a new part of her life, Chlidren, grown and independent. Single and relatively young.
I would speak to her and explain that although you understand that it is her life you feel uncomfortable discussing intimate details because shes your mum. Would prefer not to read about her exploits and are somewhat worried about her saftey with regard to meeting strangers.

That is really all you can say as it is her life

Hoptastic · 05/12/2008 10:35

She has suffered badly from depression in the past. I am Bipolar myself and i can;t recognise it in her although i suppose symptoms can vary.

Like i say i expect her to have a sex life and a sex drive but its the inappropriate way she display it and shows it that is upsetting.

For instance there is an 18yr old man that works in her local shop - she chats to him at the couner whilst stroking his shouldre and he mention that the shops has started to do deliverys she then comes back with

'oh i would love one of your special deliveries X, just make sure im decent when you come by (followed by ridiculous girlish giggles)'

It makes my feel nauscious and the poor boys face he looks horrified!

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Hoptastic · 05/12/2008 10:38

It just hard to get her to take me seriously when i tell her how uncomfortable its making me!

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blinks · 05/12/2008 10:46

is there anyone she listens to?

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