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
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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 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, my mother woke me up and asked to borrow money. Still groggy, I mumbled where my money stash was. She took all $300 and refuses to pay me back because I'm her son and I "owe" her. FML
Today, it's been months that my mom has owed me $174, and every time I ask she tells me she's too poor to pay me back. Girly bought an entire 180k dollar farm with my grandparents the day after I asked (also the money was used for gas, and she guilt tripped me into giving it to her). FML
Today, my mom decided to go against every promise she's made to everyone once again and left us in financial ruin. How? She took advantage of my kindness, and didn't pay any of the money she owes me for driving my car, and for so much more. I'm more than $2,000 in debt now. FML
Today, after years of loaning my mother countless amounts of cash that never get paid back, borrowing $60 from her, and being just one day late paying it off due to food poisoning, she sends a very large man to my door to collect, like she's Tony Soprano. FML
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
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
Today, after months of helping my mother with bills because she claimed she had no money, I found out she makes way more than what I do. She just wanted my money for alcohol and drugs. FML
Today, my mom cleaned out my bank account, saying my "no-good dad" owes her child support and that she'll get it one way or another. FML
Today, my mother asked me if she could borrow $200. Being the lovely daughter I am, I gave her my bank card to withdraw it herself. She gambled it away and maxed my bank account out. I had $1500 saved. FML
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Top comments
adropofpeace 8
If you knew she didn't have a job, why did you expect her to pay you back?
nicoleadrigiz 4
YDI for lending money to someone who is clearly unable to pay you back :/
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nicoleadrigiz 4
YDI for lending money to someone who is clearly unable to pay you back :/
aprilita 8
my mom would say 'I should charge you for everything I've bought you since the day you were botn'
Docbee 11
I bet you that op's mom has a secret job but just enjoys other people paying for her things ;D
DudeImBetter 0
my mom always says it's in the bank when she owes me something, I don't even have a bank account.
whitesox365 0
my mom usually says nothing because shes dead
davex 0
I agree with 4 that's something my parents would say. And OP it's ur mom AND she is unemployed. You shouldn't really ask for ur money back. At least not till she has a job.
dwreck69 0
op should be lucky her mom didn't abort her
gabe2014 0
37 half of what you said there is based on assumption. not trying to sound bad but what if her mom didn't really give birth to her or care for her?
forthepainx3 0
his mom could be unemployed because of a medical reason and is on disablility pay.
omfgfmlife 0
Why is everyone bashing op for wanting his money back? if she was a real parent she would owe up instead of bsing around it like most do.. when your parents treat you like a grown up you act like one
ximenita0731 0
are you asking money back from your own mom? instead you should realize that you will NEVER be able to pay back all what your mom has done for you!
ImAHomosexual 0
Hey, my mom has done so much for me and I will love her forever but I respect her enough to think that she'd be respectful enough to find a way to pay back her son. And maybe op really needs the money too. You can't just be expected to give everything to your mom.
Jazze_fml 10
i'm sorry 37 but respect is earned. i hate people who think parents somehow did their childrensome kind of favor by raising them and paying for those first 18 years(anything after that i'll admit is a favor) they made a ******* concious decision to have a child with everything that entails. that includes the costs of raising a child. what you get in return for all that bullshit is haveing a child. now earning the respect of said child is another matter. if you lend money and don't pay them back then i'm sorry you don't derserve shit.
adropofpeace 8
If you knew she didn't have a job, why did you expect her to pay you back?
lamAzn 0
exactly, why would you care much for your own mother own you money, who raised OP up?
Sketchisan 27
I dunno, depends on how badly I needed that $50 back. If I didn't really need it, no sweat, keep it. But if that $50 stood between me and getting my car impounded or some other financial emergency, I'd be calling her like Sallie Mae student loans to get it back. Especially if I had a decent reason to believe that she had the money and was getting ready to spend it on some BS like party liquor. (Shows you how messed up my family's priorities are....)
canttouchthis90 0
I wouldn't ask my mom for any money that she owes me, she spent more than that while you grew up
a124 4
YDI. Make your own money
RetardedBullFrog 4
She did, that's what she lent her mom with.
Marcel4_fml 3
3 - apparently she is making her own money....if she is lending her mom 50 bucks smh lol
flockz 20
does her "job" involve using her head?
beanieboy0789 0
Giving head, probably
BB_ava 0
cat & dog ^
humzizzl3 0
Lol OP's mother is a ****
HelloNoora1 0
Why would you even ask her to pay you if she has no job? She's probably already struggling to put food on the table and that's why she borrowed the money in the 1st place. Why don't you pay her back all the money you sucked out of her?
everybodyluvsMEN 0
If shes been unemployed for 3 years she is CLEARLY either incompetent or not trying. So if she is struggling to put food on the table because of no job it is her own fault.
RetardedBullFrog 4
77, no bullfrogs ?
TheDog6 24
#98. You cant say that. I know a person who has tried to find a job everyday for the past 3 or so years but still has had no luck. So please take your head from under a rock and actually start using that thing inside of it, assuming you have one of those things of course.
j_cat187 20
hate mooches that don't do shit cuz they don't care about anything
xXSillyLoveXx 0
Unemployed for 3 years? I don't think you're getting your money back.
BaconDave 12
Hey, she finally got a job!
CoffeeZ 0
Sucks, and as already said, you knew she didn't have a job. But, it's your Mom. Yeah, it sucks. But it's Mom! IMO
nicoleadrigiz 4
I'd still want my money regardless of the fact that it's my mom or not. I mean if it were 5 or 10 bucks I wouldn't care. but 50...don't be a mooch!
Mysanitywins 10
Its OPs mom...she gave birth to her.
hellokimmiee 5
Run after her and tackle her to the ground and pull her hair until she gives you your money...
theguy33 1
or pull a stewie griffin and just shoot her knee caps out or something
itsbritneybixchh 0
hahh that sucks. make her your maid i guesss.
detective_oreo 0
first day of work?