Today, I learned that my anxious and obsessive mother is going to drive three hours every weekend to attend a Johns Hopkins medical course on stress reduction. Why is this bad? I just left home for college and have enjoyed my last two weeks of freedom without her around. I attend Johns Hopkins. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I found my mother wandering the halls of my fraternity unescorted and asked why she was here, she told me she was concerned when I didn't pick up my phone for two days. She then informed me that she had also moved to the same city I live in. My mother moved over 600 miles to stalk me. FML
Today, my mother won't let me intern at a prestigious college, working with graduate students and professors, and being paid, because she doesn't want to drive me. FML
Today, I told my mom about the severe phobia I've developed towards driving. She was very supportive and even made me an appointment to see a psychologist. His office is two hours away. I have to drive to see my doctor about my fear of driving. FML
Today, my moms are driving me mad. My biological mom, a therapist, keeps telling me I need to try new things because life is short. My non-biological mom, a doctor, keeps telling me everything new I want to try has health risks that will shorten my life even further. FML
Today, I’m an adult and my mother lives with me, not me with her. She found out I was going to be gone for 9 days on vacation and that she couldn’t come, so she had a “mental break down” and checked herself into a psych ward. Last year, she did the same thing when I graduated college and celebrated it. FML
Today, I got offered a ride to go home for the weekend. I go to college six hours away from home and haven't seen my family for almost two months. When I called my mom with the good news, she told me not to come. FML
Today, my mom came home and told me she was going back to college. She's going to the community college that a lot of the graduates from my school go to. She has biology with my ex. They're lab partners and have to do take home labs together. FML
Today, my anxious, obsessive, overbearing mother called me four times. That's significantly less than usual. When I complained to my dad, he said, "She just worries about you because she loves you." I don't feel loved, I feel smothered. FML
Today, my mother knocked on the door of my room at 7am. I am currently over 300 miles from home, on a vacation to get away from my overbearing family. I told none of them where I was going. FML
Today, I got a lecture from my mother about how bad my stress has been, how I have to treat myself better and do something with my life. She still doesn't realize that most of the cause of my stress has been from her berating me about how stressed out I am. FML
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Top comments
LadyKaya 0
Wow...I'm a college student, and it would drive me INSANE to have my mother around that much. FYL.
stardustskye 0
oh god. she probably signed up for the course to spend more time with you. that sucks, I'm so sorry.
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Comments (100)
OMIGODNOWAI 0
AWH MAN. you've got the robot that gives birth. i'm officially jealous. even though you're whining about nothing. ;|
shrdlu 28
You have my sympathy just for attending Johns Hopkins! I spent two dismal years there as an undergrad years ago, and when I left I sent a letter to the campus paper that said something like "In my two years here, I have learned little, gotten lousy grades, and had a miserable time" and I meant all of it. I ended up graduating from a liberal arts college which showed me that undergrad education does not have to be as bad as it was at JHU.
sublime93 0
FYL, I see those types of moms all the time where I work. Sucks
thekraken 0
my dad went to johns hopkins
Flounder 2
Jesus Christ, you deserve it for being such a selfish bitch. If it's good for your mother, you need to stop being such a **** and support her in getting better, unless you know for a fact she's only doing it to "stalk" you.
yourMUMSgash 0
jeez it's only weekends. you still have "5 days of freedom", do you hate your mother that much? stop thinking about yourself. maybe the stress treatment will stop her being so obsessive.
moonlight_daze 8
umm.. WTF? Who cares? YDI for being a prissy college boy. Go respect your damn mother.
adrian2002 0
"Speak your mind, but please try and be respectful." Thats the most egomaniacle thing i've heard someone say #38
Puolukka 4
Yea okay...when someone lives at home and posts an FML about their parents stalking them, doing something to their boyfriends/girlfriends etc. everybody yells "YDI for living at home"...and when someone doesn't live at home and has controlling parents who stalk them and complains about that, then suddenly they're being disrespectful and still deserve it...oooookay...
Besker 0
that's because a lot of people can't see anything besides their own stool because their heads are so far up their ass that they decide to blindly troll the world to try and get rid of the smell
moonlight_daze 8
I know, right?
dspadres 0
It's not like she's moving in with you. Get over it.
hollowsmile 0
Well she obivously misses you. Why else would she waste 6 hours of driving.