It's true! And I hate feeling this way. I'm short with her, snippy and easily annoyed when she's around. I love her dearly, but she drives me nuts! While I was growing up, she abused a lot of drugs. She would get injured often, and get prescribed pain medication and abused those a lot. When I was much younger, she was an alcoholic. She was never very responsible and really prided herself in being the "cool" mom. It made me crazy. We were never close; I hated sharing secrets with her because she always told my father, who was extremely verbally and mentally abusive towards us all. I ended up moving out of the house when I was 19 and never looked back. I wonder if I have a lot of resentment towards her and that is why she drives me nuts? Can anyone else relate to this??