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[quote=Anonymous]I just had an experience with my mother that really made me feel like s%%t.

She had come over to help me, to watch the kids while I do some work. The kids were behaving terribly and I was dealing with it. During this, she had a terrible look on her face and when it was all over, she said "I think I'll go now." in a really cole, emotionless voice. When I asked her why, that she had just arrived and that I thought she had come over to help me, she said she hadn't come for this and that she was "done." This brought back this horrible feeling of when I was a child and anytime I misbehaved she would just cut me off emotionally. I asked her why she was reproaching me, I hadn't done anything and she snapped "What do you want from me?" She left, saying, "I can't deal with this. Sorry, but I can't" in that same cold, angry voice.

I don't know why but it really hit me hard. It just brought back all those feelings of being shut out from her as a child and it made me angry. I walk on eggshells a lot around her to not offend her or hurt her feelings. I know she has no tolerance for any kind of misbehavior in children and judges a lot of my parenting -- she's of the no TV, no Barbie school of parenting. I raise my children a lot differently than I was raised.

When she walked out, I had this fleeting thought of "I am done with you." But OTOH, she is old and the only mom I have. Ido love her.

No real questions, just feeling kind of crappy.

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