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[quote=Anonymous]I'm 19:39.

Ooh yes.

The inability to see herself as she is, playing the victim as soon as she hears a comment, and constantly criticizing everybody is infuriating, until it becomes just draining. 
Rock-bottom self-esteem is my guess, not senility, because she's always been more or less this way.

I am not planning on inviting my mother to stay for a good long while, which may be difficult because I really miss my father and they always travel together. The last straw was when she invited us to her house last year for a long vacation, and then proceeded to berate us on a daily (hourly) basis for things we had done, or hadn't done, or which didn't even exist - she accused us of tampering with the fridge temperature and ruining her (2 week old, mouldy) vegetables, for example. All day drama.
She called my husband names, openly tried to get him to stay somewhere else, because he doesn't take any of her drama lying down and she thought she could better control the children and me without him.
If we opened our mouths, we were harassing her. 
Then she would call all her friends and family to complain about us and play the long-suffering and unappreciated martyr. Thankfully, knowing my mother, they took it with a grain of salt, but still - not pleasant to have your own mother backstab you for no valid reason. I'm sure some of these people are thinking "no smoke without fire".

So we cut short our vacation. My children did not like their grandmother - the youngest one (2.5) said outright that she was mean.

Sorry - it's been a year, but apparently I still need to vent![/quote]

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