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Needing some encouraging words from you all

tryingtomakeit's picture

I have blogged about my parents before. I am 29 years old and my parents are divorced. When I was younger my mom was the one that I counted on. She was there for me when others were not. Well, fast foward to now, and she, my mother, is not afraid to let me know that she was the one that did everything. It is like she holds it over my head all the time and it gets soooo old.

My husband and I hit on some hard times in 2011 and things are finally turning around for us $$ wise. During the hard times my mother and her husband would always tell us we all need to move off and share a house and she could take care of the baby and we would not have to worry about a thing.

Well, my husband got a job making better money than before. I still have my job and we both work in a different city than we live in, so we have talked about moving to the city we work in. It would save us $$$ inthe long run. The only thing holding us back is we have to sell the house we live in now.

It looks like we might have a buyer on the house and it finally looks like we might get to move.

You think my mother would be happy for me, but she is not. She is asking me all these questions and really downgrading the city we want to move to. What is boils down to is 1.) she wants us to be closer to her. 2.) it looks like we have sold our house and hers is not selling. 3.) She is not in control and that meens she will say whatever she can to make me feel bad about my decision and I know this because I know how my mother works.

I love my mom and she does help me out a lot with the baby not $$, but sometimes I dont know if it is worth it because of the crap I have to put up with. Does anyone out there have issues like this?

For once in my life I want to do something for me and stop pleasing the people around me. I am getting soooo tired!

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herewegoagain's picture

Sounds like my mother...and my parents aren't divorced. Hmmm...not the "what I did for you"...but the "not happy for you, you should do X..." DO WHAT YOU WANT TO DO...that is what I have done...sometimes it works out, others it does not...but at the end, I am at peace with myself and my DH.

skylarksms's picture

Some people are just toxic. And that sometimes includes, unfortunately, one or both parents.