am I just being ridiculous?
Backstory: I haven't spoken to my mother since the beginning of October, via text message and I haven't actually seen her since July. We didn't talk much all year until August, when I started regularly texting her. I don't want a close relationship with her because of the emotional abuse she caused me as a child and teen (it's a long story I won't go into). Then she started nagging me because she says I never come see her when we're in town. We only drive one vehicle in (why would we separately drive two 3 whole hours across the state?) and my husband has family and I have plenty to see aside from my mother, sometimes I get my hair done by my old hairdresser, etc. On the weekends we come into town once every couple of months we're very busy, and my mom just isn't a top priority because I have elderly relatives to see, and I can't stand my stepdad, not to mention I was texting her daily anyway. I kept explaining to her all the circumstances and that I talk to her quite often so I'm not worried about it, but she wouldn't quit. Then she asked me what I wanted for Christmas, and I told her I wanted an InstantPot pressure cooker. She then replied hours later she had changed her mind and she won't be doing Thanksgiving or Christmas for the people not in her daily life (which I couldn't physically be anyway CONSIDERING I LIVE 3 HOURS AWAY) and that I'm not. I don't care about the presents, it's the fact that she said I wasn't invited to Thanksgiving or Christmas that pissed me off, holidays are very important to me. So I haven't returned calls or texts since.
Now, she has my siblings and grandparents texting me and calling me, telling me they don't know what my problem is but that I'm making mom upset and that makes them upset. Why am I not entitled to choose who I want in my life? I genuinely don't want anything to do with my mother, she is toxic. It's not uncommon for one of the five of her kids to not be talking to her, my brother actually isn't currently either. She's that bad. But she refuses to see or accept her faults and just says "IDC if you're mad at me, I made 4 more just like you". Am I being ridiculous like everyone is saying?
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