Today, my mom left the house in the morning, leaving me alone. I called and I got no answer. Hours later, she finally answers one of my calls and tells me that she'd been in an AA meeting all this time. Happy, I tell her to come home. She came home drunk. 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, as usual, my mom got shitfaced and started berating me for something. This time, it was for missing a therapy appointment. Not only am I unable to drive, it was her appointment. For her alcoholism. FML
Today, I came home to find my mom drunk. She asked me for a hug and then started crying, "Where's my daughter?" I'm her daughter. And her only child, as far as I know. FML
Today, my mom showed up completely hammered to a party I was throwing. The party was to celebrate the ten years that I've been sober. FML
Today, I caught my mom trying to get secretly smashed out of her brain-box on booze at 8:00 a.m. FML
Today, I had to go pick up my mother at 3 in the morning. She had been out drinking and couldn't drive. She parties more than I do. FML
Today, my alcoholic mother decided to finally check herself into rehab. She did it while drunk, and flirted with the front attendant. FML
Today, my mom got drunk and started crying, ranting about all the things she could have done in life if I hadn't been born. FML
Today, I had to pick up and drive home a couple of drunk bitches. Unfortunately, one of these drunk bitches was my mother. FML
Today, I had to confess to my mother that I was too hungover to take her to her AA meeting. FML
Today, my mom got drunk and tried to push me off a ladder. FML
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3051628 24
Don't give up hope yet OP, these kinds of things just take time, patience, and a lot of support. Be there for your mother and I'm sure that you can both power through this. As hard as it can be, you just have to maintain the right mindset with these kinds of things. I'm sure things will turn out for the best in the end
chocolatefrog28 29
Keep supporting her and encourage more AA meetings, you can't get better after just one. Good luck OP.
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3051628 24
Don't give up hope yet OP, these kinds of things just take time, patience, and a lot of support. Be there for your mother and I'm sure that you can both power through this. As hard as it can be, you just have to maintain the right mindset with these kinds of things. I'm sure things will turn out for the best in the end
patrickalamo 48
AA is for quitters...
smokecloud_ 37
27, as a heavy drinker I get the joke, I use it all the time, but did you really think it would go over well in the FML community, let alone this particular FML?
gracehi 33
Reminds me of my ex husband. Too bad you can't divorce your mom.
qyka1210 12
Too bad it's too late for you to be aborted... jk but just because someone has a problem doesn't mean you should hide, maybe your (ex?)husband needed YOUR support the most
gracehi 33
I'm sorry. I thought this was Fmylife. com, but I seem to have stumbled upon takeeverythingsaidonehundredpercentseriously. com. Anyway, not that it's any of your business, I gave my ex husband more support than he deserved. I gave him information for AA and other support groups and made counseling appointments for him. He never showed. And while he was at it, he spent all my money to support his habit and his multiple girlfriends to the point where I couldn't even pay our bills, and also stole my property. Even after he got a DUI, he bullied me into letting him take our only car (that he wasn't supposed to be driving) to a court mandated treatment meeting, then left me waiting for him for TWELVE HOURS to pick me up from work while he got shit faced and drove around town with some other loser he met at the meeting. In the end, I had to get a stranger to drive me home because it was far too far to walk and I had no money because, as usual, he'd spent it all on booze. That's the specific incident this reminds me of. You can't hold someone's addiction against them, but you can hold their unwillingness to get better against them. I don't know if OP's mom is as bad as my ex, or if she's just an all around rotten person like my ex, but if she is, OP is worse off than I was because she can't completely cut her own mother out of her life like I could my ex. That's what I meant.
Axipiter 24
My brain just exploded... Not that any of that was any of my business...
gracehi 33
Ha ha! No, not really, but I don't mind sharing the myriad anecdotes of my ex's douchebaggery now and then. It's all in the past and it just makes me appreciate my now happy life and relationship all the more. :)
qyka1210 12
wait... I'm the one making crude jokes about abortion and you're the one telling me I'm taking everything 100% seriously? How about you, commenting about your entire personal life in response to a sarcastic comment?
chocolatefrog28 29
Keep supporting her and encourage more AA meetings, you can't get better after just one. Good luck OP.
joea21 21
Maybe there's a correlation between her talking to you and her coming home drunk later on... Just saying.
Lil_Red777 21
Maybe you're a jerk? Just saying
Razi_tail 25
Do not ever try to put blame on anyone else! This is a disease that takes time to control, not eliminate. As previously stated, you are a jerk for trying to blame the child.
joea21 21
Alcoholism isn't a disease. That's like saying smoking is a disease because people can't quit that either.
Nilorak 24
Yes it is.
joea21 21
Alcoholism isn't a disease I'm sorry. It's an excuse for people that have addictive personalities use. Why not focus on real diseases that matter instead of giving people who can't control their drinking an excuse to resort to. I have no sympathy for "alcoholics"
joea21 21
I just saw that you're 14 years old. What the hell do you know about alcoholism?? Lmao. Go do your hw little girl.
Nilorak 24
Maybe, you shouldn't talk about things you have no knowledge about?
Nilorak 24
It is.
stevothedevo 25
@#46, you sound a tad hypocritical considering one of the eight words in your profile is stating that beer makes a perfect life.
Pizzapiggy1 18
Just wow.
Pizzapiggy1 18
I'm sorry, I didn't know what an AA meeting was before I posted the comment. But support her throughout this time and stay positive
\ 28
#16 Good for you for finding out, but I still think you meant "such wow."
jtthegr8 26
Always remember, problems don't go away in just a day. She'll get over it soon enough.. If she really is going to AA meetings anyways.
Matilda19 7
my friend use to do the same thing but she use to do it with the other AA members and they told her that she need to go to a different place because she was a bad influence
BunkBeds 9
ugh every comment is the same. nobody is actually an individual? it's like people feel the need to repeat others just to hear themselves talk. stand out! and don't say you're an individual. everyone says it, making nobody an individual
BunkBeds 9
it's OK to share an opinion or a thought or emotion with other people. You shouldn't try to make it your own is what I'm saying, together it would be more meaningful
Pizzapiggy1 18
What's an AA meeting ?
Nilorak 24
Alcoholic anonyms
ksks1234 33
Alcoholics Anonymous. 12 beat me to it.
Nilorak 24
Well you are the one that spelled it correctly.
False_Stupidity 42
Atrophied Anus
The_Big_Boss 20
Baby steps