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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My mother is this way; demands all eyes on her and that there be zero silence. She is beyond annoying and very controlling. We stopped taking family vacations with her but she displays this self focused behavior during visits to her house and car trips.

Will not stop talking. Will hand me magazines to take home but tells me to read them later. She then gets out a hand written list which prompts her to tell me everything on the list-usually about neighbors and relatives and people she knows. Exhaustively detailed information.

I mentioned to her long ago about how when one of my friends vacationed with her ILs, she loved nothing more than sitting on their back porch and reading, alone. My mom proclaimed that the height of rudeness.
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We might be related! [b]Mine keeps index cards handy with handwritten lists of stories about people I don’t know in case her monologue content wanes.[/b] It’s exhausting. I posted on the other thread about growing up in a house where we weren’t allowed to close doors during the day or have any personal downtime. No explanation for what creates a mindset like this, but it’s awful. If someone gets up to use the bathroom, she asks if they drank too much water or if they have an upset stomach. However, when she’s ready for iPad time, we are expected to maintain our positions and just…wait for her to come back. Woe to the sibling’s spouse who darts out for a run or a nap!

My happiest childhood memories are of visiting my aunt on my mom’s side. We would wake up early and read in her quiet house. She died when I was a child and I often wonder what my tween/teenage and adult years would have been like had she lived longer.[/quote]

OMG! I think I might say "May I see that?" holding out my hand for the cards. I would examine them bemusedly, obviously trying not to laugh. "Huh. How sweet." Give them back. Hopefully she would get the idea that writing out lists of topics for a monologue IS NOT NORMAL.[/quote]

I snatched a list away once and said “just let me read it”, and she let me and then said “now let me give you all of the details”, and kept going.[/quote]

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