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[quote=Anonymous]My mom is just the sort of person I would avoid if not for the fact that she's my mom. She's an enormous gossip and lives to tear people down, with the emotional maturity of a 12 year old and has to make everything about her. She's insecure about herself, so to make herself feel better, she's rips you down. She has this hang up about the fact that she didn't go to college while my dad has a doctorate, always making these little snide remarks. When I show academic aptitude and success, those comments got directed towards me. When I graduated college, her comment was "I wish [i]my[/i] mother had been supportive of me going to college." It only got worse as I advanced. This is how she treats just about everything--make it about how either she's done it better or some excuse as to why she couldn't do it. And because she's insecure, she  gets very defensive. Don't disagree with her for any reason unless you're ready for her wrath. She has spoke and she is always right.

I've discovered that in addition to being a nasty gossip and Me Monster, she's a liar. I believe these lies are a combination of her trying to make herself feel better about decisions she wish she hadn't made and trying to impress people. But they're still lies, and so many of them. To the point where I've heard so many lies about so many things I'm really unsure that things I've held to be true are actually the real story.

Is that the sort of person you would want to send any time with? Yeah, me neither. [/quote]

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