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Should I feel guilty for not spending as much time with my mother?

I will start off by saying that I am an only child and I have lived with my mother by ourselves since I was a baby. I will be graduating soon, and I have not spent much time with my mom lately. I feel incredibly guilty about it, because she is 63, retired, and always home alone, so I feel like I need to be around her. Even when I am home, though we don't do much, and she mainly sits on her computer.

I have always felt guilty about anything involving my mom, like she has instilled a really strong guilty bone in me. At this point in my life I am becoming extremely independent and wanting to do my own thing. I am tired of the extreme amounts of pressure she puts on me for school, when I am already a great student. I have entered a serious relationship, which has been the largest problem. She likes my boyfriend a lot, but I am never home (mainly because we have a landlord issue and no one besides us is supposed to be on the property at the moment).. I wish she could realize that I am happy with how my life is right now, and I have my own plans I am making.

Just today I mentioned how I was going out with him again tonight and she practically had a fit saying that she is "tired of me never being home", I normally just hang my head down and take it, but this time on my boyfriend's advice I stood up to her. She did the thing she always does and says "Well fine I will start focusing on myself since you don't want a part in this with me."

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  • 5 years ago

    Spend time with your mom as much as you can.

  • 5 years ago

    she probably just wants to spend some time with you, i would spend some time with her, someday your mom wont be around and you'll miss these times, you could still hang out with your boyfriend but just hang out with her too

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