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[quote=Anonymous][quote]I didn't acknowledge mothers day last year. My birthday is in October and my father told me that my mother didn't want to give me anything for it because of my lack of doing anything for mother's day.

My mother became a shittier and shittier mother as the years went on, and now it's at the point where I don't ever want to be around her at all. Sometimes I can stand to talk to her for about 10 minutes once a month. She lives on the other side of the country and I don't visit.

To the poster who said "You can't think of one good thing about your mother?" - well, yes. I can. But I've already acknowledged the good things she did when I was growing up. I don't feel like acknowledging them every SINGLE year. That seems stupid.

She's not a good mother now. I don't respect her. I'm not even sure I love her anymore. She has done a lot of really, really awful things with deep, long-lasting consequences that both my sister and I work hard at overcoming. So no, I don't really want to pat her on the back for things she did in the 80's and 90's because Hallmark tells me it's time to. [/quote]

Then don't send her a card.  Can't you see that by ruminating on this, you are letting her win?  Do nothing for her and don't think about her.[/quote]

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