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[quote=Anonymous]She sounds very proud of the way she kept her own house and with that she assumed that you would follow exactly in her footsteps. My mother is the same way.  It's a generational thing. My parents have enough money for a housekeeper and although my mother complains about housework and what she needs to do that she just can't get around to, she can't bring herself to hire help-- like you're mother she's wary of non-familial people. My father is the same way. He has no carpenter/electrician/plumbing license nor training but he can somehow do the work better than all three. Go figure.

Don't get too hooked on her opinions. She's your mother and she can't help herself and she's not going to change. You'll never win unless you threaten to throw her out and control how much she gets to see her grandchildren and that can get a lot meaner than a nitpicky lady who can't shut-up about the state of your home. What if you just nod a smile, tune her out and yes her to death/ Or, as other posters have suggested, if it really gets out of hand, leave a bucket of cleaning supplies outside her door and tell her that she wins, she is a MUCH better housekeeper than you are and could ever be, you are the first to admit your own faults, and with that, you trust her to do a much better job than you could ever do.   :wink:   That said, if she is so against a housekeeper, offer her money to do the work (sounds like she LOVES housekeeping anyway no?) [/quote]

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