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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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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)
interesting33 37
wow. now I feel like a disappointment. I'm nowhere near and m 25.
kindameanalwaysfun 7
hell, I'm 31 and just graduated high school.
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.
RichardPencil 32
How many grandkids have you made for her? Accolades and material possessions aren’t all there is to life.
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
RichardPencil 32
I’m not saying the mother is right, but I’m explaining how she could be disappointed with a financially successful son.
MA_medQ 7
Stop validating the mother’s bullsh*t. OP deserves to be proud of where they are in life without having to listen to their mother complain about all the stuff they haven’t done yet - that’s the kind of negativity you don’t need in life.
tounces7 28
Some of ya'll really need to understand his humor a bit better. Obviously he was making a jab at the mother.
slkeithh 14
I hope you're joking.
raven_of_azarath 35
1. He was joking. 2. It’s called devil’s advocate. Look it up.
Dave_Davington 34
Obviously your job is "professional". That's what that word means in the first place. See, shit like this is why your mother doesn't love you.
Chloe555_fml 27
Who hurt you?
bl3ur0z3 17
So McDonald's cashier is a professional job? Or does the word "job" only imply "professional" when in a professional setting?
onceuponatime456 16
Perhaps it is best you stay silent so no one will know how st*p*d you are!
Dave_Davington 34
Get the sand out of your vaginas. If you can't spot a joke that obvious, and are so ******* prissy that you think "stupid" needs to be censored, what are you even doing on the internet in the first place?
Janet Coburn 3
Just procreate and you're golden.
TxKitten79 10
Wow. You're successful and employed and she's disappointed? What is she disappointed about? I'm genuinely curious.
Mungolikecandy 19
Maybe tell her how disappointed you are in her?
Yudith 28
It's hard to be a gay otaku, but the whole Internet is there to love and support you.
onceuponatime456 16
Change your phone number and do NOT give it to her! Cut her out of your life forever, you will miss nothing!
Tim Carver 9
and the reason you keep taking her calls is?