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Difficult relationship with my mum. How would you handle this?

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Imaginosity · 11/12/2017 21:42

I find my mother very difficult to get along with it. She gets over emotional, very nosy, jealous of my relationship with my in-laws etc. I don't enjoy spending time with her as she drones on about people I don't know for ages or else prys for information about my life. If I tell her anything about my life she goes on and on about it - or might somehow throw it back at me in future when she is annoyed. I now keep our conversations vague or switch the conversation back to her if she is prying too much. Like she will dig for information on my in-laws but I can tell deep down she is seething if she feels we have spent extra time with them or they have got something she hasn't.

She sometimes texts trying to guilt trip me into ringing my dad if he is not well or something. She is so emotional about it that it gets my back up. I almost feel like not ringing him because of the manner in which she asks. If I ring him then its like I'm confirming to her that her irritating emotional pleading worked and she'll think she should keep doing it.

I wish she'd just back off and let me manage my relationships with other people. If I say this to her then I'm the bad guy.

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Angrybird345 · 11/12/2017 21:46

Wow! It reads like I could have written it! Except she goes on at me about my sister , and as I haven’t curtailed to her demands and given her loads of sympathy for crap she has caused in her pity party, we haven’t spoken to over 4 months. Up to recently, I just kept her at a distance as couldn’t hack wanting 20 questions about everything, including a purchase of tea towels - where, why, how much, why them, why not another shop ....

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