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I tried asking my mother for two things today. First of all - not to tell her parents about the whole potential redundancy thing. They know the company I work for, and my grandparents arent exactly known for their 'keeping it quiet' business. I dont particularly want them to know right now, as its all up in the air, and well, knowing my mother she'll tell them all kind of stuff she really shouldnt. But it was too late. She'd already told them. Then refuses to believe she was in the wrong.
I tried explaining to her that the stuff I told them was meant to just stay between us, as I could get into trouble for even mentioning some of the stuff Ive said. But then she completely missed the point. I gave up.

The next thing I told her was something more personal. We got into an argument over it. My dad tried to help me out as he actually saw where I was coming from. My mother didn't. No matter how hard I tried to explain it to her, she always thinks shes in the right. My feelings / opinions dont count. Anyway, my mother is now peeved with me big time. Shes refusing to talk to me, and just being in a generally irritable mood.

I wish she could see things from my side, rather than trying to force me to accept stuff that I refuse to accept. Meh.

Kit, in response, I can only point you towards a poem which was deemed fit to be published by Faber, from a poet who was afterwards offered the Laureateship, (which he turned down btw), but which would be deemed unsuitable to be written down here by the puny minds of the tin-pot powers that be:

http://members.home.nl/gerhardnijenhuis/msp/verse.htm


Jab

Kitush, I have a mother like that... with relatives who do that.
That girl who went psycho-paranoid on me had relatives like that. This is just a typical [insert nationality, I wanna say American for myself, but that'd just be like so uber-biased to people in other places, as h2g2 is based in UK lol] backstabbing family scenario...
"blood runs thicker than water"
...
... "water is less potentially harmful sometimes if you know how deep it is."
There is water with blood running through it, like a Bl**dy battlefield, after the fact.
Less battles, mean "what if they gave a war but no one came?" <- to quote a popular Peace poster from some decade where I wasn't born yet...


Hey wait a minute Isn't that most of them (especially as I am not quite even yet exactly two decades old)?

No nono, odd and peculiaar tangent though that may be, the point I had was that What I have to do, and she has to do, is the smae thing that young folk across the world have to do to prevent being 'mortified' or worse yet, ostracized/alienated from stuff by relatives... Don't tell them. I was talking about how much of a bunch of jackalopes my extended kin were, then suddenly my mom gets into a "well my kid does thus/such/the other..." Oh yeah? Yeah! Type thing with my aunt, and she happen to bring up my Hootoo-ing and entry. Asks me too late "oh, I hope you did not mind BUT I..." NOoo...

}BOOM!{ etc.

Yes, they can get prying, for awhile, afer it...

to you kitush. If I could share my parents with you, I would.

And, in the meantime, you still have Wilma...

Thanks guys. My parents arent bad most of the time. There are just some things that they think they know best. If I argue or just try to explain my point of view on one of these topics, it turns into a shouting match, then my mother refuses to speak to me for days....#I just want them to accept me for me, but when stuff l9ke this happens, I wonder if she ever can

Wish I knew people who "weren't" like that...

Unfortunately, s (pun there), my age all tend to mother me a bit, then get mad at how the think they know better on things, or get upset if I ask them for help. It can be quite frustrating... but usually they are the ones who act like they -think I did it all on purpose. I'm "dead" please go away/don't bother me ...

Hi kitush, sorry to hear about your situation. It looks from here like your mum needs to get off her high horse and if she can't then just bypass her for a while until she realises that she isn't always right. There's nothing worse than a know it all busybody who can't see things from other people's point of view.

Anyway, good luck with this. Hope everything turns out for the best.

thanks.

ommmm *sending vibes to Kitush's mum* ommmm