Today, my mom grabbed my phone, said she was taking it because I'd been disrespectful, and hung up my call. I'd been speaking with a work client. This is the gratitude I get for paying all her bills for the past 2 years, all because she's too lazy to get a job. FML
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Last call, bad decisions and 3 a.m. texts you'll regret until noon. Cheers.
Today, my mom took my cell to work with her. When she got home later, she scolded me for not answering her calls. When I pointed out that she'd taken it, she grounded me for "talking back". FML
Today, my mom was on the phone while we went grocery shopping. Apparently, her phone call was more important because she just left me stranded in the store. FML
Today, I told my mom I wasn't doing very good mentally and I was looking for some support. She decided to remind me of all of the things I still haven't paid her back for. I'm now an unpaid loan, not her daughter. FML
Today, I checked my inbox and realized I got an email from a potential employer, saying they were having trouble getting a hold of me by phone. They called while my mom was using my phone to look up directions to a place, and she answered, kindly hanging up when they asked for me. FML
Today, I called my mom from Australia. I have been abroad for two months and hadn't talked to her in a long time. A few minutes into the conversation my moms stops me and says this call must cost a fortune and hangs up on me. A few bucks in more important to her then me. FML
Today, I spent all day at the hospital with my grandma for some tests. When I drove her back home she decided to thank me with $50. Knowing she is unemployed, I told her I couldn't take a whole $50. She replied with "Ungrateful, just like your mother", then took the money and left. FML
Today, my mom has been calling me every ten minutes, asking me questions about her new computer. She called me at work, and I rudely answered her question. She called back, talked to my boss, saying she was a customer that called in, and I was rude to her. FML
Today, I was involved in an intense argument with my dad. Just as I yelled, "You haven't done one thing for me", my phone rang. The same phone that, as of today, my dad no longer pays the bill for. FML
Today, I asked my mother to pay back the $50 she owes me. Rather than paying me back, she raced off to "work". She's been unemployed for 3 years. FML
Today, my adult daughter reached out to me, asking to mend our relationship. I told her there would be nothing until she paid me back for what I spent raising her ungrateful self. In response, she laughed at me, said, "Never mind" and flipped me off as she walked out. FML
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Top comments
cupcakekate9 14
You need to stop enabling your mom. She needs to learn that she can't keep using you as a source, and grow up. She's supposed to be the parent, not you. This path is going to be your life if you don't change it now. Your mom needs to learn the values of life and her lack of responsibility is wrong, especially when she is dependent on her child.
Ginger_Love 19
Well I mean, you could just stop paying the bills until she respects your personal space or she gets a job. Don't be a pushover or she will walk all over you.
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Comments (58)
julianna5782 12
you're paying her bills for two years, but she can still take your phone away? out of sheer curiosity, how old would that make you exactly? twenty seventeen?
behappyitsover 11
Well you could always stop paying the bills and get your own life
MrsHoffman 11
Well man up, take back your phone and stop paying her bills, it's that simple!
Oh_No_Not_Him 25
If you are paying her bills in return for living in her house rent-free, for example, then I can see how it could be a fair arrangement. But even then you should be entitled to do your job without interference. If she is contributing nothing in return then you need to take your bill-money and find your own place to spend it on.
BLDYRBBT 16
Time for momma to go bye bye. I wouldnt accept that behavior froma child much less from grown ads adult. Time to sit her down and have a very long talk.
Sandman2015 12
Yeah I would remind her of the fact that she just hung up on a WORK client, and you need that phone for your JOB, and see if that clicks.
FrostyyFML 15
Stop payin' 'em.
Superbaker123 14
Stop enabling her, and from the sound of it you're an adult, so she has no right to do that.
samomaha 17
Been there, done that, got the t-shirt. Learn from my 40 years of that happening. Demand the phone back immediately, and advise her that new rules are in place: YOU decide what you do and how, not she; she will end her disrespect of you; she does not have the authority to 'discipline' you, she will treat you as an adult; or the bills quit getting paid; all of this is non-negotiable. Then make it stick. Trust me and my experience, it will only get worse and worse unless you stop it now.
fallrain 4
Wow. I wonder why she felt she had the right to take your property- that you pay for. She was wrong and disrespectful. One of the things that popped in my head when I read your post, was she might be suffering with depression. I do. And when it's bad, I can't work and I rarely leave the house, hell, rarely answer the phone. Of course Idk your mom but I was just giving you a reason you may not have thought of to why she may not be working. Depression is real. Some people think you can just take a pill or take a walk and then you're healed. For many, it's much deeper than tho.