I feel you pain. I have a mother like that. I always envy people who can telll their mother anything and have them GET it. With my mom it is always about her and I have heard from day one how I was raising my kids wrong and my house was never clean enough and to top it off now I'm FAT. Then she wonders why I never tell her anything. I am really close to my immediate family...hubbby and kids....and she doesn't get why she's not close to us. If we ever cross her, we hear about it FOREVER. One good thing that has come out of this is I am really close to my kids and I don't judge them and they can tell me anything. I don't have a lot of close friends but the one close friend I have gets me and is excited or sad with me. And I also feel like I have friends here on YT. I guess what I'm trying to say is we are here for you. Patty |