Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One of my parents thinks I have the summer off like I'm still in school. I'm in my 40s.

My mom thinks that too! And when I remind her that no, there is no summer break for adults, I still have WORK, she sighs and acts disgusted. "I always had so much fun with you kids all summer. Luckily your dad was a good provider." I remember sitting and reading novels in the sun while she did who knows what.

I’ve had this exact same conversation with my mom. She will add “so sad that your generation of women has to work.”

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow, so much hate for mom. She must have been a horrible mother.

"How your kids treat you when they no longer need you to survive is exactly how they felt treated when they needed you to survive."

Not me. I treat my mother now much better than she ever treated me.

People who had great or even good moms don’t get the scars that having an awful one leaves us. My mother was the worst and told me often that she wished she had an abortion. So as soon as I became an adult I gave her her wish and removed myself from her life completely. She acts like the victim now and is “so sad” she doesn’t know her grandchildren. She can die alone and I will not be in attendance.

Anonymous wrote:My mom is the opposite- no one will ever work as hard as she had too…or parent as much as she did… she is of the boomer generation so thinks she’s the expert in everything.

This is my mother, but like OPs mom, she is confused about what I do all day. My mom sees herself as the best at everything and assumes I have endless free time to coddle her but instead, I am eating bon bons and caviar as I lounge or something. Anyway, my mother who re-wrote history actually cut every corner with parenting, fed us TV dinners often or McDonalds, used us as excuses to leave her part-time job to pamper herself when she had a job, left us with 9-year-old sitters, would hide in her room for hours with the door locked, had emotional breakdowns at the slightest inconvenience and made us be her personal therapist so there's that.

Sounds like they have dementia?