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I Just Need To Vent!!!

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Heather

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Sometimes I really hate my mother.

My therapist gave me this book about narcissistic mothers and I was only on page 23 and I called and asked him if they interviewed her for the book?! Everything is always about her.

I finally told her I was having a hard time again. I asked her if she would watch my daughter... I have 3 appt. this week coming up. My therapist is on vacation which literally sucks ass because I'm struggling so much right now. (but he is going to call me a bunch so that helps) and she hasn't spent much time with her granddaughter lately anyway so you'd think she'd want to see her. And she does have the option to say no but she said YES. Then she says that takes up three of my days. I'm thinking to myself then don't watch her for me and I'll end up in the hospital again like I did in July and you won't have ANY days free. It's always all about her.

God sometimes I really hate that b*tch. She refuses to acknowledge any of what I'm going through or how hard this is on me. That she kept sending us down there year after year, summer after summer. That I still live with the effects of what my father did to me to this day. I can't function as a normal person. I can't have normal relationships. I can't even be touched right now, the very idea repulses me.

All my mother wants to do is act like nothing happened, ignore it and it'll go away, that's her motto. Screw her is what I say. When my brother-in-law sexually assaulted me all she cared about was how it affected her. She was furious at ME when she found out that I had gone to the police. I must had said 150 times that night: "this is not my fault". To this day she still says I blame you for the way it came out. She never even said I'm sorry that happened to you. She still goes over to my sisters house. She was there tonight. It blows my mind that she can be in the same room with that evil monster after what he did to me!

My daughter almost went to the same school as my sisters kids and over my dead body was I going to let that happen. I was going to write a letter to the school board asking to change schools and my mother wanted to know what I was going to put in the letter. She so concerned about appearances! What about the F&^king truth. luckily I moved so it was a none issue. I'm done maybe now I can sleep.
 
While we are in the spirit of venting, I may as well throw mine into the mix.

I have a similar sort of mother to you, Heather, I think. When I was homeless she called me up and started going on about how fabulous her new home was! She actually kept going on and on about how wonderful her home was when she KNEW I was in a shelter, homeless, in the middle of winter, friendless and coping with PTSD! She's beyond self-centred, she truly has no freakin' idea about anyone outside of her own world even existing (which I guess is the definition of narcisisstic.

She is still going on about how mean i was to her, when I , callously brought her along to my psychologists offices, at my psyches request, and then cornered her by confronting her with how her behavior made me feel. I could see her getting ready to literally bounce up and run out of the office, but my psyche cleverly positioned the seating so that her chair was in front of the door and mums was seated at the far back where she couldn't get away.

After 9 years, THAT'S all she can say whenever it comes up...that I hurt her feelings by forcing her to face the truth about her self. No apologies, no "oh god, I'm sorry my behavior caused so much pain for you"...just all about her! I feel like she constantly wants to make me her mother and she acts like she's my daughter, when it's the other way around. At least I face my shit and do something about it. She's like an ostrich...just buries her head in the sand and pretends everything's ok, when it's not.

She actually expected to me to uproot my life here, to move in with her and take care of her when she left dad! She totally had it all planned out, that I would go to uni up in Brissy and take care of her, and we'd be best friends. She forgot to run it by me though, and was genuinely shocked when I said I liked living where I was and didn't want to move up there! My mother lives in a fantasy world!
 
I get it. I have gone through this stuff with my mother. It hurts to have and have been raised with a narrcasistic mother. When I started raising my children it hurt more and for a long time I couldn't understand why. I know now. What I had to do was stop talking to her. Stop participating. Stop taking care of her. I did that for me. I had to hang out with people who had the capacity to care for me. Do you have people you can count on in your life? I know it doesn't stop the pain of what happened because I still feel that but it can get better with boundaries.
 
I don't know why it continues to shock me, but it does. My mother is the most self-absorbed human-being alive.

Tuesday night around 2 a.m. I was awoken out of my sleep with most agonizing pain on the left hand side of my abdomen. I literally thought I was going to die. I tried to make it t'il the morning because I didn't want to disturb my mom at that god awful hour but by 4 a.m. I couldn't bear the pain any longer.

I called her and told her that I was in agony and needed to goto the emergency room. My mother sighed with disgust and said, "can't you call an ambulance?" I said, "how am I suppose to get home and what about Nicole (my daughter)?" She said she'd come and get Nicole and wouldn't my insurance company pay for a ride back to my apartment? I told her NO it doesn't work like that! She said fine and that she'd get dressed.

I've been so ANGRY at her ever since that happened. Yet, I know that I'd be wasting my breath if I were to confront her because she would just say, "that's your perception". I'm sooooo close to telling her to stay out of my life for good. She never once asked me if I was ok. Nothing. It's all about her. All the time!
 
Thanks Bloom it was a kidney stone
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. It finally passed. OUCH doesn't begin to describe it. Thank god for morphine and percocet!
 
OOOOWWWWWWW.....

OMG! NICE of your Mom to be so supportive.

I'm so grateful part of my recovery has included wonderful people I can call who'll actually care for me and about me with NONE of that kinda garbage. So now that I'm learning how to reciprocate, I have these peeps to call and no longer have to rely on that kinda 'unhelpful help'...sheesh!

As if the kidney stone wasn't enough pain....probably less painful than invalidation and emotional abandonment....

((((((((Heather))))))))))))
 
Bloom:
I hated calling her but literally had NO other options. My friend that I usually can call on for anything her father-in-law died so she's in Virginia with her husband. My other friend (who is also my neighbor) I didn't want to bother her because she had to get up and goto work and she has an 8 y/o as well.

Then to top it off I just got back from the Urologist a few hours ago and found out that the e.r. doctor LIED to me! The kidney stone is no where near my bladder. I am not a doctor and when I looked at the cat scan even I could tell that! My urologist said maybe she told you that because she needed the bed!? NICE! So, I don't even know if it didn pass. He sent me for an x-ray that will tell if it did pass and if there is anymore stones. Oh joy.
 
Oh, (((((((((Heather))))))))))))

That @#$#@!!!! ER QUACK!!!!

You can BET he didn't raise HIS babies!

Sending you wishes for healing and passing those stones so you don't end up with ANY more #@$#!!!! to deal with!
 
Bloom:
I hated calling her but literally had NO other options. My friend that I usually can call on for anything her father-in-law died so she's in Virginia with her husband. My other friend (who is also my neighbor) I didn't want to bother her because she had to get up and goto work and she has an 8 y/o as well.

Then to top it off I just got back from the Urologist a few hours ago and found out that the e.r. doctor LIED to me! The kidney stone is no where near my bladder. I am not a doctor and when I looked at the cat scan even I could tell that! My urologist said maybe she told you that because she needed the bed!? NICE! So, I don't even know if it didn pass. He sent me for an x-ray that will tell if it did pass and if there is anymore stones. Oh joy.



I can totally relate. Doctors pretty much look at insurance and how much work they actually have to do for those high paying jobs. I hope everything came out okay with Xrays and its all gone, and don't feel bad...when I had a tumor burst( nothing compared to what pain you felt I hear KS are the worst), the ER doc told me I was fat and gassy!!!

Feel better!! And good luck with your Mom.
 
(((((AmyO)))))))

OMG...

There could be a whole forum on the crappy things we women have been put through just by intellectually lazy sexist 'professionals' who took our $$$$ and gave us only traumatic mems in return.

Welcome to the forum!
 
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