Today, it's been over a month since my mom has answered my calls or texts. Why? Because I didn't write an elaborate post on her Facebook for her birthday like my sister did. I only called and messaged with her all day. 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'm still trying not to cry. Yesterday was by birthday. I got an email from my dad with three words, "Happy Birthday (nickname)". I got a Facebook post from my mother. No card. No phone call. No gift. I have become nothing more than a Facebook friend to my parents. FML
Today, my mom wrote me an email, asking how I was doing after an accident yesterday. I wrote back at length, telling her everything in detail. Two hours later, she calls me on the phone, asking how I am. She was simply too lazy to check her mail and expected me to tell her everything a second time. FML
Today, it turns out calling out my mother's best friend out for the right-wing conspiracy theorist she is wasn't one of my best ideas. Now, my mother won't even reply to my messages. It's been two months. FML
Today, I missed a call from my mom. It's my birthday, and glad she remembered, I called back to thank her. She was surprised when I brought up going out for dinner, and asked me what the occasion was. FML
Today, I've been so stressed out that I forgot my own birthday. I only remembered when my mom talked to me to let me know she wasn't planning on doing anything for it. FML
Today, I got a text from my mom shaming me for forgetting my sister's birthday. It isn't her birthday today, it's mine. FML
Today, I found out that my mother doesn’t visit me because I'm the only sibling without children. She posts all about her wonderful children on social media, but I'm left out. She hasn't set foot in my house since I moved out of hers. FML
Today, it's my first birthday without my mom, who I was very close to. My friends asked a few days ago if I wanted to celebrate. I said yes, but nothing big. Just someone to be around. All I got was a brief "Happy birthday" text before the conversation moved on. FML
Today, I called my mother to say hi. She spent a whole hour and a half complaining about how I never call her, bawling and calling me "a waste of human flesh." I call her at least once a week. FML
Today, I woke up and took my mom to work. It wasn't until after I got home, logged on Facebook and looked at the upcoming birthdays to see that it was her birthday today. No wonder she was silent the entire car ride and slammed the door on the way out. FML
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Brightside86 31
Yeah but if her friends can't see it, does it really count? I'm only 1/2 joking people over valuing facebook nonsense is certainly a real thing. I think it's funny that FB was originally about serving college students, and now they've bailed and moms have moved in.
GoogieWithers 25
Some people prefer the image that the outside world sees rather than what actually matters.
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Brightside86 31
Yeah but if her friends can't see it, does it really count? I'm only 1/2 joking people over valuing facebook nonsense is certainly a real thing. I think it's funny that FB was originally about serving college students, and now they've bailed and moms have moved in.
xxlk4xx 6
I feel like some of the moms are even moving on from fb lol, I deleted it a few years ago because it wasn't doing anything for my mental health, then my sister deleted it as well and my mom deleted hers as well after fb posted something of hers without her consent 🙃 but imagine getting mad cuz your kid didn't post on fb 🤣
GoogieWithers 25
Some people prefer the image that the outside world sees rather than what actually matters.