No. I think my life is as shitty as it is because of her. She doesn't give good advice and doesn't offer any encouragement. Any time I ever brought anything up to her for her advice, she shot down my ideas, whether it was a job or an apartment or what I wanted to go to college for. And I didn't even realize it until a couple months ago. I showed her another apartment I found that I could actually afford, and of course she tells me "I don't think you can afford that". She tells me I should get a job with benefits. I tell her about a couple that I found and she says "well you've been at your job for a while, do you really want to be the new person again?".
When i a 52 yr old man look back at some of the things that my mother had said to me a very stubborn headstrong teenager, I have to admit she was right about a lot of things. And my father as well. Had i listened to him id have been less hurt by friends less taken advantage of by scumbag relatives on my mothers side.
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No. I think my life is as shitty as it is because of her. She doesn't give good advice and doesn't offer any encouragement. Any time I ever brought anything up to her for her advice, she shot down my ideas, whether it was a job or an apartment or what I wanted to go to college for. And I didn't even realize it until a couple months ago. I showed her another apartment I found that I could actually afford, and of course she tells me "I don't think you can afford that". She tells me I should get a job with benefits. I tell her about a couple that I found and she says "well you've been at your job for a while, do you really want to be the new person again?".
Uhmmmmmmm.........probably not so much, as she was Bi-Polar.
The local priest once called, and said your mother is in the Church parking lot, doing donuts with the car.
When we arrived, she had hopped the car up and over a hedge somehow and was now stuck.
Oh yeahhhhhhh, interesting teen years.
No, because I was older enough to think for myself, And no disrespect to my Mother.
Not really life turned out ok, thanks mom for your help.
i think so, wish i had listened more
When i a 52 yr old man look back at some of the things that my mother had said to me a very stubborn headstrong teenager, I have to admit she was right about a lot of things. And my father as well. Had i listened to him id have been less hurt by friends less taken advantage of by scumbag relatives on my mothers side.
Nope....my parents were great but I educated myself on financial matters so that part of my life turned out much better.
No, since she was not me and did not have my life. Listening to her always pained me.
No she talked me into my sixth form options, my first, second , third and fourth job. All were disastrous.
Truthfully, yes. But I just had to find out for myself.