Today, my mother told me I should think about quitting school. She explained that the reason was because she didn't want me to be more successful than my older sisters. 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, my mom told me that she doesn't want me to help any of my friends get a job at the restaurant I work at. Apparently, she thinks that they would do a better job than me and get me fired. 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, my mom told me I'm the reason she's going to kill herself one day. FML
Today, my mother won't let me intern at a prestigious college, working with graduate students and professors, and being paid, because she doesn't want to drive me. 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, I dropped out of college and moved back home to help my mom take care of my younger siblings after our father's death. My mom yelled at me and scolded me and lectured me for throwing my life away, and said this was the last thing she ever wanted me to do. I thought she needed help. FML
Today, my mother told me she's disappointed in me for not going to a better college, and that if I was in the top ten of my class that the rest of those ten must be really dumb. Fact is, I threw away the acceptance letters to Carnegie Mellon and Cornell because I didn't want her to have to pay. FML
Today, my mom said if I don't get straight As in my classes this year, she'll get the school to hold me back until I do. I believe her. FML
Today, my mom is obsessed with my academic success, as she was a highschool dropout, and actually gives me more homework than my school does, all so I’ll be more advanced than my peers. I barely know what a television is anymore, since it’s been so long I’ve had enough free time to watch one. FML
Today, I found out that my mother has been purposely wrecking every relationship I've had since junior high because ''no one is good enough for her little girl''. FML
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24788 7
Don't listen to her... You are your own person. Is she going to pay all your bills & expenses?
where_i_stood 0
Don't quit. It's your life.
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Comments (133)
Khalavaster 0
Wonderful. You can bum off your parents the rest of your life and they cant complain.
Starchild21 3
lol good point, theyd have no one to blame but themselves
acd23 0
It would be even funnier if she bummed off her parents while secretly earning an online degree. And after she earns the degree she goes and gets a better job than her sisters, meanwhile still living at home, pretending that she has no life because her mother tried to undermine all chances of success in her life.
Rouge_Plague 0
BRILLIANT!
anniebananie 3
Not brilliant because most of the time, online degrees aren't worth shit, since almost any employer would rather hire with a degree from a real college.
boatkicker 5
Online courses at a local college work though. And if you have to go to campus for one or two classes, fine as long as your parents dont catch you. Besides, a lot of employers arent going to recognize your specific college's name. That are a shit-ton of colleges. For the most part, unless tey KNOW the school adn KNOW its an online college, they don't really care. As my uncle put it "There's Ivy League schools. And there's everything else. Unless they're looking for somone who graduated Harvard, they dont care where your degree is from."
acd23 0
Maybe not brilliant, but an online degree would be easier to conceal from her parents than trying to take classes that you have to attend in person. My real suggest to the OP would be to keep going to college anyways. If your mother stops paying for it, find financial support, scholarships, all that money that out there that's waiting to be claimed.
Ligerie 0
so what you do now is become more successful and tell her to drop dead and get that sand out of her ******
Starchild21 3
that sucks so much. u have every right to succeed and be proud of it :) good luck in ur studies and dont let her get to u!
camerashy 0
Why would she say that ??? That is so ****** up!!! FYL
gotsparkly 0
Sounds like it's time for you to finish school, graduate with honors, and when she wants help, tell her no.
FenderYK 0
YDI for being a girl
fawfulster 11
Keep going. And get ready call the cops. If there's college money missing and you're suspended AND SHE is paying for your school, then you know the reason. Beleive me, if that whacko you call "mom" is nuts enough for telling YOU, HER DAUGHTER to quit college, I beleive she is nuts enough to also stop paying your college money.
McFail_fml 4
You should listen to your mom and quit while your ahead...
TheIrishJaneDoe 9
FYL, unless you're one of those people who acts like your college degree makes you better than they are. If that's the case, then YDI.
SirWombat 0
Here's your motivation to graduate, get a successful job and prove your mom she's a bitch.