WHAT DO YOU WANT ?

[Cynical Ninja]

I suppose you are stuck with the family you've got.

Could you and your guy not both feign illness?

Sorry mother can't come this year swine flu.

Nope - the dictator will have you come even when ill. I was once fresh out of major surgery, in a brace and strict orders to stay in bed for the next six weeks. NO CARS. Guess what she bullied me into?

All because she cries.

We do on occasion go into hiding. We pretend we go to Detroit every couple years to his family but we'd really like to go for real but can't afford it now for some time. Thank you Jon Corzine.

Last time we hid for Christmas and when "we got back", she still insisted we come up to exchange gifts. We felt awful. We ran out last minute and got gifts ( after a whole diatribe of NOT doing this due to money constraints and going "away") and the woman spent like $500 on EACH of us and gifts for the dogs and cats (just chewy treats and stuff).

Bitch knows how to lay on the guilt.

Jeez sounds like my Granny who died earlier this year, she had a good heart but always wanted to be centre of attention and had to have things her way, and boy she knew how to lay on a guilt trip!

I've felt sorry for my mother in the past running around after her like a slave, I think she breathed a huge sigh of relief when she got put into a private care home for her own safety. Even though she was suffering from dementia she was still causing trouble with the other residents and guilt tripping my mother on the phone constantly.

I was sad to see her die, but I haven't cried yet, for every positive thing she did for me there was always a negative to cancel it out.

I will never forgive her for ruining a family holiday in Greece years ago, my parents paid for it, three weeks touring greece and the greek islands first class cost thousands of pounds, and on the first day she deliberately fell out with my grandad and she refused to speak to anybody for the rest of the holiday creating a terrible atmosphere for three fucking weeks.