This mum needs to Get A Grip Pronto

[Greythorne]

It is only a tattoo.

Not it's a Guardian article. Don't worry, your computer will not be corrupted.

I read that article this morning and was totally incredulous! I noticed she used a pseudonym, so wondered if it was a Guardian regular. Couldn't work out who it might be though.

My only hope for him is that his eventual wife is a MNer.

She is going to need every ounce of support we have.

I smell Narc tbh, his demeanour/measured language with her only reinforces my suspicions.

I hope he cuts his mother off before her attempts at manipulation do any more damage to his self esteem.

I don't click on daily mail links. It's a hateful mysoginist rag and I don't want to add to their advertising revenues. No need for the face.

She sounds like my mum!

Dh has four tattoos. He is a high flying accountant. Fucking odd woman she has serious ishoos!

And having read it she sounds completely narcisstic and poisonous. And I say that as someone who loathes tattoos.

Oh my mum definately would have reacted like this.

When I had my eyebrow pierced she didn't talk to me for 2 weeks!

Actually my mother responded to my brothers tattoo a bit like this. Fortunately she didn't commit her thoughts to paper.

I dislike tattoos, but she really needs to get a grip. What a total loon spud!

I couldnt even read the whole thing, it's pathetic.

yeah, not the tattoo, it's the realisation that her son has earned his own money, made his own choice and no longer needs or seeks her approval. I can see why that would be upsetting tbh, but still! get over it. Saying she feels like somebody died is ridiculous.

That's the article I thought of, Artex! It MUST be the same freak.

This is exactly the situation the term 'First World Problem' was created for.

I wondered if it was her too artex.

Can't work out whether that was real. But it probably was.

Controlling much?

Poor son (who sounds lovely).

I agree with Edam. There's probably a thread of this sentiment running through any mother whose son gets a tattoo, but she has really run with that train of thought and detailed it alone, with no balance, no perspective, no acceptance.... and that's not normal. So yeah, desperate for work, and what gets printed? something controversial.

I am upset that she uses a stanza from WH Audens poem funeral blues to describe her grief. The stars are not wanted now: put out every one; pack up the moon and dismantle the sun

You're right Raven - she is unbelievably self centred.

Floating walnut shelves woman's children can't be old enough, surely? Perhaps they're sisters.

Wow, her poor son, she is a total freak.

tess stimpson remarried , what's her new sur name?

Semms a bit odd to me , he's 21 FFS. My mum was a little shocked when i got my first tatoo at the age of 14 but luckily she didn't stop talking too me.

But my feelings, as he made his decision, were completely unimportant.

Yes, he's grown up and made a decision for himself about something that doesn't remotely affect you. You should be celebrating the fact you have produced a grown up child capable of doing this, rather than whinging that you can't still control him.

Honestly I want to shake her.