Please Respect your Family

[Jodi1980]

My mother has a friend who talks and complaints all the time about her grown children. She lives in the basement of her divorced son and she also has an adult daughter. She will talk about any marriage trouble the son had with his ex-wife, something her children may have said and she turns it into something awful, that they spend too much money, etc, etc. I’m sure she does this to gain attention and sympathy, but I cannot believe that her children are not aware that their mother does so not only when she is on the phone with her friends but also when she has visitors over to the house. This must hurt her children to no end as it not only shows disrespect for them but the fact that she is making her children’s business everyone else’s. Please don’t believe that you can talk about someone that you actually live with and believe that they are not aware of it, whether it is your child, your spouse or a friend. I also believe that something you may do or say today will end up hurting you more so in the end.

 

[Disney Doll]

And this same woman will wonder why she doesn't have a good relationship with her children!

 

[cassie]

I agree Disney Doll.

 

[bigbabyblues]

My mother talked horribly about me when I was pregnant. She told her friends, and a few of mine, things that were nowhere near the truth-----didn't think the baby was my DH's, I knew nothing about raising kids and I was too stupid and selfish to learn, told people she would have to raise it because there was no way we could afford to--and we made easily 6 times what her and my dad do in a year, considering my dad hasn't worked in 26 years, all kinds of things like that. Things that weren't true, and everyone knew it, but it still hurt like heck to hear it.

Yep, things said lead to hurt and resentment.

 

[nativetxn]