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Ugh My Mom...
Okay, let me preface this saying I love my mom, but she is very difficult to deal with sometimes. She barely ever calls me and when we do talk it goes one of two ways, either she rambles on and on about a bunch of people's lives that I don't know or don't know well or she makes little digs about my job, life, etc. Her calls are frequently along the lines of "They are hiring at such and such (in our hometown) and you should apply". "Umm, Mom, I live 2.5 hours away. I have a job here and I am in no way qualified to be a physician's assistant. I have a THEATRE degree."
So today she calls me wanting to know if DH and I would think about driving down and watching the house for them while they are OOT. Evidently someone dumped a stolen car in our woods yesterday (whole other story). Meanwhile my oldest sister and her husband live less than 1/2 hour away and my parents have already arranged for a longtime family friend to come by and check on the place and feed the dogs. To me, it makes no sense for us to drive the 2.5 hours down there with 3 dogs (one of whom gets carsick) to do something that A) they already have somebody doing and B)if necessary there is family a lot closer.
Just needed to vent and get that off my chest. Anybody else have difficult parent/family stories they want to share?
Re: Ugh My Mom...
I think our Mom's should be BFF's, they sound like they'd get along great lol. I can definitely sympathize with you on this one.
To no one's surprise here, my Mom drives me insane. She's one of those people who knows everything about everything and life only revolves around her. Unless she is 100% involved in something, she hates it. I didn't need/want/ask her opinion on mine and Jason's apartment so she naturally thinks it's a dump whereas my younger sister needed my Mom to co-sign on her college apartment next year and now my Mom thinks it is just so cute and really nice even though it's twice the price of ours and half the size. Same thing with my car I bought last year. I didn't need/want/ask for her help, so instead of being excited for me and congratulating me, she was a total b*tch about it. She had been calling me at least 5-6 times a week just to talk about herself, my 'wonderful' siblings or her cats. She even called me on our wedding night, less than 2 hours after our wedding and then called me the very next morning right as we were trying to leave for our honeymoon, not to mention she called me three times within a 4 day span during our honeymoon. Finally a couple weeks ago I freaked out on her and told her not to call me so much, so now she's down to 3 times a week which is so nice. I'm currently in operation 'weed Mom out of life' because every single time I talk to her, she just gets me annoyed/angry. She never ever asks how my life is going or how I am doing, and the few times I try to bring something up about my life, she either says I'm wrong about something or just ignores it and changes the subject back to her. Case in point, last night I had a 2 hour drive home from work because there was a bad accident on the highway. She called me right as I got home and I told her about it, and instead of saying "Oh, I'm sorry, that stinks" her response was "Yeah I'm driving too, I just left the nursing home and now I'm stopping at McDonalds to pick up dinner for your brother" Ummm apparently her 10 minute drive around town is the same thing as my 2 hour drive home? Gahhhhh! I've told her before that I love her because she's my Mom but if she wasn't, I would never be her friend.
Oh, and for those thinking maybe she's just lonely, that's not the case at all, she has my stepdad, brother, sister, and friends...so she's just a b*tch.
And end of rant lol...
I love my family to itty bitty pieces.....
but I think the best decision I ever made was moving to a different state. We literally don't live near DH's side of the family, or my family. The amount of drama we've missed makes me sigh with relief. It's amazing.
Although, I am sorry you're dealing with that.
We have this same appreciation. I have three sisters (so four girls total). Three of us get along fantastically, they are my best friends. My other sister is the black sheep and annoys the crap out of us constantly (for those of you that remember she is the one who tried to measure herself for her BM dress w/a ruler). The best thing in the world is that she lives a 2 hour drive away from us. If she lived in the same town things would not be good between the four of us. We can tolerate her for a weekend, but that is it!