Sometimes motherhood can be so trying. REALLY trying. I so sick of always worrying about my kids. I forget how to just be happy with them. And cuisines to live in the two family apartment my mother owns was really not the best decision. My mother critiques EVERYTHING I do as a mother that it just magnifies my insecurities. It's also making me not like her at all. When does motherhood not exude so much frustration!!!

My father sexually abused me. I had to tell my mother about it three different times and I was ignored. I don't remember when it started, or even when it stopped. I still have a relationship with both of them. What do I do? If I make a move with it, I lose everything and so does my younger brother. The family will side with him and I lose. I don't win in any situation.

I knew that my SS8 mother rarely tells him no, but I think letting an 8 year old boy pick out new eyeglass frames for himself that have flowers on them and are clearly girls' frames is a bit much.I know its best if I stay out of it, and that's what I am going to do. But I do not think it is ok.

Im the OP where Mom and I agreed we would have dinner together for Mother's day at 7. I got to her house at 645pm and she had already eaten and told my dad who was working that I blew her off for dinner. She is 51, so I doubt its Alzheimers. She is always trying to start trouble!

My fil got me a gift card for mother's day. It's a Nook gift card, I don't have any e-readers. I think he thought it was for Barnes and Noble and not just for a Nook. Not sure what to do with it since I have no desire to get a Nook or any other e-reader.

DH surprised me with a diamond necklace on Mother's Day. We're actually cf, so I haven't shown it to anyone. I'd be afraid of the backlash and/or snarky comments.

dh got me a $100.00 gift card to kohl's. how weird. i've never shopped there in my life. he knows my favorite store is target. he did try though. and he bought me some scratchers & a mother's day card!

My Dad had to work yesterday-he works at a hotel. My Mom and I agreed we would have dinner together for Mother's day at 7. I got to her house at 645pm. She was just finishing dinner, saying how horrible I was for making her eat dinner alone on Mother's Day.Then she called my Dad at work and told him I didn't show up for dinner.I know 100% I didn't get the time wrong, my mom has done stuff like this before, always trying to start trouble between my dad and I. Sometimes he believes her sometimes he dosent.

I wish I knew what I wanted. My birthday was yesterday, but I felt drowned by Mother's Day. SIL just got married in September, is 3 years younger, and announced she is pregnant. We have been waiting to be in a better place financially, and maybe have a house, before getting pregnant... but I feel jealous. She married someone with no debt and a house and gets to jump ahead of us.

My favorite inheritance story. My dad's mother bought a seashell that cost 80 dollars. One of those HUGE ones. My aunt (mom's sister) looked at my grandma like she was nuts and said "you spent 80 bucks on a seashell?" So my grandma left my aunt that seashell to my aunt. It sits in my aunts beach house as of now.