My mother is very mean!
I don't know why she treats us the way she does.
I called her today to see how she is doing and the conversation was going well- Until she heard my boys talking in the backround.
Then she asks "do you have the kids home?"
I tell her "Yes ma remember i homeschool now?"
She says "Why? what's wrong with you? Why are you doing this to them?"
I Told her "MOM we already had this conversation 2 months ago why are you acting like I never told you?"
Then she went on a rant!
Your crazy you should of never taken them out of school now you have them there all day and no telivision and now they won't have friends. What's wrong with you your insane you don't know what your doing you went to public school and you turned out ok and so did your brothers and sisters!!!"
so then I started getting mad and told her
" Ok mom are you forgetting that you have 3 boys who are alchoholics drug pushers and users. and one of your daughters is living with a husband who ubuses her and she is doing drugs too drinks herself to sleep and cusses her kids out. You only have 2 normal daughters and 1 normal son mom- Who are you talking about when you say we all turned out ok? Yes we went to public school and when i was in the 4th grade I was trying to get my bus driver to kiss me and in middle school smoked my first ciggarette and high school mom don't get me started on high school! Yea we turned out ok right?! You don't want to know the things I did in high school in fact mom you don't want to know the things any of your kids did in high school"!
Then she cut me off and started telling me what a liar I was and that all of us were good.
I don't know what land she was living in but none of us were good!
Then she says well then how did your life turn out so much better than your sisters and brothers?
I told her it was only cause I gave my life to Jesus and then she cut me off again telling me not to preach to her. I was not preaching to her she asked me a question and I was answering it.
Then she hung up on me!!
UGHHHHHHHH
WHy do I let her drive me nuts?!!!!
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Comments: 20
ANd I do understand why she is the way she is but she uses it as a crutch.
Although my mother is the same way and probably worse, I stuck to my guns. She didn't like it and said so but that didn't matter to me. It was her violating my boundaries and trying to control you. Be strong. :)
For the same reason Mothers can make us crazy. We love Mom and they just know all the right buttons to push. My Mom needs a hearing aid but won't get her hearing checked. Says she passes all the tests, but we all have to repeat so many things. We have all decided that we aren't repeating everything 3 or 4 times. She gets her vision checked and gets glasses. Why won't she take care of her hearing problem? LOL!
I am proud of you for the homeschooling. My son is homeschooling his daughter. I sure hope it works.
HH
THAT did it. He called me the next day with an appointment for the following week.
He still doesn't wear the thing regularly, but that's in self defense, so he can say to my mother's constant requests "I didn't hear you". My grandfather used to start fingering his hearing aid meaningfully while looking at my grandmother if she got under his skin about something.
Tell your mother it's her 'dimmer' switch and she gets to choose whether she wants to hear something or not. The rest of us don't have that option.
for the views she has about life. Know that you are a great Mother for all the Love you share with your boys. You are worthy of how you feel.
It's not you, it's her.
Many people don't understand home schooling. No one else knows your exact circumstances and the needs of your family. Just say a little prayer for their understanding.
I think you're good to keep contacting your mother. It would be so easy to just avoid her. That's a way you show true Christian spirit. Sometimes it is hard to honor our parents.
HH
I have lived a similar life