Why do you hate your mom?

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awesome thread - presumptious and proves its presumptions.

like others, i didn't have much apriciation of my mother until shit hit the fan (and she proved her worth as a safety net).

stuff that bothered me:
unlike my father which was more in touch with the economic reality while he was alive, my mother has ideals from the baby boomer generation and expectations with it - house prices (and rents), college tuitions, even gas prices and public transport (we lived far from the city), placed me in a position where it was nearly impossible for me to start from scretch without any financial stimulai if you will or some kind of help, and i eventually did get on my feet (to make my own mistakes and fall again), but it took me a much longer time to save the money to do so with longer periods between jobs. in the mean time she's filling up a heated pool that she never uses and flies with the most expansive airlines on my father's investments. only much later when she studied herself with kids my age she started to understand the reality.

also, she loves hosting and taking full credit for it - "do you want tea dear? o don't worry i'll just call me son to come home so that he can make it for you so i don't have to get up".

but honestly she was there when nobody else was - she is there for me now (freshly divorced - 2 weeks). no complaint about her can measure against that.