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my mother appears to be deliberately trying to pick fights with me

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wannaBe1974 · 03/09/2006 22:19

... as per previous posts, me and her don't exactly get on.

Tonight I called her for some reason or another, and she proceeded to tell me about my nephew's attempts at being potty trained. he's 3.2 and only just attempting to be potty trained. Anyway, she said that progress was being mmade, so I said, only casually, "hope he won't regress now that he's starting a new nursery". He's being taken out of his current nursery as it's closing and put into a new nursery where he doesn't know anyone. So she started huffing and puffing as she does, and then said "oh what the hell do you know, you don't know anything about children, you only know your own child". so I just ignored. Then we moved on to the sale of my house, and she asked me what price I wanted for it, to which I replied "the asking price". she is already taking great delight in the fact that the market seems a little slow, and she is, not so secretly, hoping we don't manage to sell it. so she started getting somewhat defensive, saying that we must have an idea how much money we want for it etc, and I said again, yes, the asking price, we've deliberately not over priced it because there are lots of other houses on the market that are higher priced than ours but who will most likely not get that for them, according to what estate agents have told me, so then she started again "oh yes of course, you know everything as always don't you". I didn't rise, just said "no, I didn't say that at all". call ended shortly after that.

So it just seems that she's deliberately trying to pick fights with me now. I don't know whether it's because she's feeling resentful that we're moving away, that she feels she doesn't have enough control over me (I rarely tell her what I'm doing these days), or maybe she's just getting bitter in her old age.

Now I can't wait to move, can I move and not give her my new address?

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suejoneziscalmernow · 03/09/2006 22:22

or move and give her someone elses address How quickly would she work out you'd given her the wrong one?

kickassangel · 03/09/2006 22:22

dh's parents did that to us. they said it was a mistake!

sorry to hear about your mum. mine gets a little like that when she's upset about something.

wannaBe1974 · 03/09/2006 22:27

mmm maybe I could just say to her ".. oh the phone will be connected in ... er ... a few years or so ... don't call us, we'll call you", lol

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edam · 03/09/2006 22:30

When mine tries to pick a fight, I really enjoy saying 'no mother, yes mother, three bags full mother'. Winds her up no end because she can't have the conversation she'd planned or get in all her prepared statements.

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