Today, my mother once again called me to remind me what a disappointment I am despite having two degrees, a house, a professional job and having never been unemployed at 25. FML
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Today, I realized that even though I was an honor student throughout school, and considered the golden child who was going to go far in life, all I've accomplished a year after graduation is becoming an unemployed single mother still living with my parents. FML
Today, once again, my mom ranted about how she sacrificed so much for me by moving to a better city. I said it was for my education and to stop making me feel like a burden. She scoffed, "Right, you never should've been born. My mistake." FML
Today, despite me being a master-level carpenter, and my art sells for thousands, I heard my mom telling her snobby friends how embarrassed she is of me because I’m “basically unemployed” and waste my time on “hobby crafts” like a teenage nerd instead of getting “a real job” and finding a wife. FML
Today, my mother yet again went on a long rant about how much of a loser I am as I have "never had boyfriend" and I'm 26. Truth is, I've been in the same relationship for over five years but it "doesn't count because he's black." FML
Today, after having spent years staying in school, working hard to achieve good grades, and avoiding all the bad kids, my mom accused me of having no direction in life and complained about how I haven't given her a grandchild yet. I'm 19. FML
Today, like every other day, my mother, who I live with due to circumstances outside my control, harasses me every twenty minutes and generally treats me like her personal slave. When I dared complain, she had the audacity to tell me I’m lucky to “live a life of service.” Yeah, fuck you too. FML
Today, and for the past 3 years since I first started looking for work, my mother has once again cussed me out and called me "ungrateful" because I tried to get a job. She won't let me get my ID, and she will only apply to jobs around our tiny town that she "feels like doing." We're about to lose our home. FML
Today, whilst on a phone interview with a college I really want to go to, my mother picks up the other line and shouts into the phone "She's not going to college, she's lazy and she'll only disappoint you." The interviewer hung up before I could say anything. FML
Today, my mother told me to 'quit having a pity party'. I was just diagnosed with depression. I've lost my boyfriend, my job, my academic standing, and I just got rejected from every graduate school I applied for. And my mother thinks I'm a cry baby. Great. FML
Today, my mother called me, telling me how disappointed she was at how I let my room "become such a pigsty." I haven't lived there in three years. FML
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Top comments
purplewhanker 4
I hope you know better that you are a person worthy of acclaim, love, recognition, approval. Surround yourself with people who appreciate you for the wonderful, accomplished, caring, successful individual you are. Acknowledge and affirm to yourself, repeatedly and often, that even if no one, your mother, especially, is willing to see and recognize all those admirable qualities that make you the the success that you are, that you have YOU in your corner. Move ever forward, head high, ignoring those who would jealously strive to bring you down.
slimthundah 5
Neither is making grandchildren for an irrationally harsh mother. If they don’t want children, that doesn’t take away from their success and damn sure doesn’t make them a failure
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Comments (35)
ravensarepurple 10
Wow OP I'm sorry to hear this, sounds like your mother is just way to hard to please. Don't let her bring you down and if need be just cut her negativity out of your life. You deserve better than that!!!
TheFMLman 5
tell her that she sucks
kittykitty2802 11
So what? Just be thankful that you still have a mother to do that and she's not sitting in an urn like mine
Emma Marshall_738558922 12
She's obviously the disappointment
yeongji 31
No matter how content one is with life, there will be those out there who will try to knock you down, whether it be out of jealousy, boredom, etc. OP, you know you are doing much better than most people at your age, so you should be proud of it. If she keeps on calling to degrade you, perhaps you should consider blocking her number?
rodfergie 18
I didn't realize that my parents had more kids
Anonimus50 1
Excuse me wtf?! Does she know what disappointment realy is?
TumblrweedPasses 11
Who cares what that old sack thinks You're doing good, it's your life to live Block her and do as you're doing
AmbrosiaFan 19
Stop answering the phone. If she can't be positive and polite, scrub her from your life.
Julyrain 18
r u Asian? it's how most Asians behave. no racism. I'm Asian here so I know how bad it could be. you get an "A-," it's a "fail" in d eyes if an Asian parent. some parents are jerks and think they're 'doing good' to keep their children humble. bollocks