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[quote=Anonymous]My mother grew up with very wealthy parents who were at the top of society in our midwest town. Their name is on a building at a college in our state if that provides context. So my mother had everything growing up.

But she was a personality-disordered disaster who was divorced from my dad by the time I was five. She couldn't hold a job because she couldn't get along with people, so she sold used stuff she bought at garage sales and flea markets. She was always screaming at us about how poor we were. We truly were poor -- free school lunch and I don't think I had new clothes that didn't come from a garage sale or good will until I had a job and bought them myself in high school. My sister and I never saw a doctor because we had no health insurance. Etc, etc, etc. My mother spent her time in bars looking for men, and she left us alone to go out at night. We ate tv dinners on our own almost evry night. She married two more times after my dad, each of them abusive, but the second one had some money. UMC money. But she just got meaner, and her DH was even worse than she was.

My dad was MIA after she pushed him out when we were little. According to my mother he never paid child support, which could be true but my mother did not always tell the truth so who knows. His parents loved us, but were half the country away.

It was awful. But not so much because of the "rags" part. It was more awful because she was awful. Which was, I guess, a huge contributor to the "rags" part.

I do blame my mother's parents some. In retrospect it is hard to believe they didn't do anything. It's not like they didn't know -- we lived in a house they owned, and were walking distance from them. They knew how it was for us, and didn't do anything. Well, they did pay for college and prof school for both of us. But that was a little late.

So my mother is the "riches to rags." I am a professional with plenty of money. UMC, I suppose. [/quote]

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