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Would you call or not?
I'll start by saying that me and my mother have never had the best of relationships. She lacked on many fronts as a mother and I learned to resent her over the years..she lied to me about whom my father was for 16 years, was an alcoholic for 6 of them amongst other issues..however for the past year or so I've tried to forgive and forget and we seemed to get along better. I suppose we all need to feel wanted and close to our parents, so I tried my hardest to to achieve that in order to fill in that emptiness. We found out recently that we are expecting our third child and I called and told her. I made it very clear it was to be kept secret until we had had all the tests run and knew all was ok. She promised..but a week later I found out she had called around and told everyone. I was livid. I called her very upset and told her she was out of line. She mumbled and stuttered not knowing what to say and I told her I had to go ( I wanted to avoid a full blown argument) I hoped in some stupid way that she would call and apologies or try and sort things..it's been a week and she hasn't. I'm sure she thinks she's right as she always does...but I'm thinking, if I call her am I playing into her game? Or am I being the bigger person?
3 Answers
- 6 years ago
I think your urge to call comes from that old feeling you had as a child to go to your parent. For comfort, for advice, or belonging, or whatever. It's not an adult urge to sort this out in a mature way. And why do I say this? Because, if you were seeing this situation objectively, you would see that though YOU have changed (a lot!), she has not. Don't mistake your ability to mature and grow into more of an adult as an indication that she has done the same. Or is likely to.
I don't know what your next step with your mother should be. How involved in your children's lives she should be. But I recommend, for now, just allowing some Time. Let some time pass. Get a bit more perspective. If she contacts you, that's the time to decide whether you're happy to reciprocate. Or, if she doesn't, you may eventually feel the same (healthy) need to try again with your mother as you felt when you contacted her about this pregnancy. Because it wasn't a mistake to try when you did, but accept that it failed. Or, rather, she did, and don't be in a rush to get back on the merry-go-round of dysfunctional relationships.
- 6 years ago
Tell her how you feel and talk to her when it comes to people I care about my prude doesn't apply just call