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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yep, unless you have a mother who wants to exert control over you any way she can, you don't understand.

One of my last memories of my mom is her fussing at me because I did not follow her incorrect directions to the nursing home--"you never listen to me, everything would be fine if you did everything the way I tell you to." I gave up and went the way she wanted, just to placate her, and then she got mad at me because it was the wrong way. Sigh. She did not have dementia, she was just like this with me most of my life.

OP, bet your Mom had some weird, only-making-sense-to-her reason ONLY you could place the call. Once you refused to be controlled and she couldn't bribe you into it, she probably realized it made no sense and now doens't want to talk about it.  [/quote]

When my boys were small I had gotten their Christmas pictures taken and my mother insisted that I had parted their hair on the "wrong side."  She insisted that there was a universal "right side" on which boys were to have their hair parted and I had screwed up the pictures because I didn't "get it right."

Another time, she picked me up from college for what was supposed to be a shopping date for the two of us.  When she saw I wasn't wearing makeup for the outing, she told me she wasn't taking me and left.

This is the kind of shit that sounds small in isolation, but over time, adds up to a mental game that requires the child to draw very bright lines.[/quote]

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