Here’s an article about how throwing your mom out of your life makes it better.
This makes a lot of sense.
Mom is annoying.
Mom thinks she’s entitled to speak into your life just because she birthed you.
And made your well-being a priority in her life.
Silly woman.
You don’t need your diaper changed anymore.
You know how to walk and eat and read.
Her opinions are no longer necessary.
Mom outlived her usefulness.
My older daughter had been very sick with anorexia and my mother emailed me to say her illness was my fault and I should be grateful she was telling me this because it showed she loved me. But I was done with her.
Harriet Brown – Woman teaching her daughter that it’s okay to throw Mom out of her life.
Mom always blames you, doesn’t she?
Mine blamed me for coloring on the wall every time I used a crayon to make marks on the wall.
Mom blamed me for messing up the floor whenever I walked on it with muddy shoes.
She called it “sin” when I dishonored her and I said something stupid like, “I’m cutting you out of my life.”
Actually…I never said anything that stupid.
My mom raised me better than that.
It has never occurred to me to throw Mom out of the tribe.
She’s the one who taught me that family is forever.
She suffered me the countless times I was insufferable.
She is allowed to annoy me.
When you excommunicate Mom, is anyone safe in your family?
How long does your anorexic daughter have to get her act together before you kick her to the curb?
You’re a horrible person.
You should be grateful I’m telling you this.
You can start working on yourself before you completely run out of loved ones.
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Looks like Harriet Brown took Jesus’ words from Matthew 10:34-37 a bit too literally:
“For I have come to set…a daughter against her mother, blah blah blah…”
I guess that makes the professor a good, bible-believing Christian.
Cue Miss Moneypenny: “Didn’t rhyme.”
Didn’t rhyme.
Besides, you can’t have anyone around who knows the real you. Need to tie up loose ends.
It’s funny, it used to be, we took care of our moms when they got old. I guess that’s a buzz-kill now.
I’m hoping the anorexic daughter gets fed up with her mother’s attempts to help her deal with her “issues”. I imagine the article will be titled, “My Mom Bullied Me as An Anorexic So I Had To Cut Her Out of My Life”
Yup, it’s funny how this woman doesn’t take any responsibility for her daughter’s anorexia. I’m sure it was those occasional visits from bad-gramma.
But you’re probably right. The daughter is learning firsthand what powerless people do when other people in their life actually have an opinion about their welfare. And the beat goes on…
Sadly, this is exactly what my son did 14 years ago. He decided that the man who begged me repeatedly to abort him when I was pregnant with him was forgivuYxETr that he has only seen a few time in her life rarely had contact with. We both love him, however, and pray for a day when our relationships are restored. More importantly, we pray that God softens his heart and my prodigal son returns to his father in heaven.
Forgiveable…not forgivuYxETr.. LOL
I’m sorry that happened. Hope this article was a little encouraging.
Once Mom was gone I would give anything to have her “annoy” me for another day.
I saw that article and immediately thought, “I hope John sees this”. At this point, I’m sure that these journalists are just in it for the shock factor. Did you catch that the mother died without them reconciling with one another? She actually said she was happy about that. Abysmal…
It is hard to know how much of the writing is truth. If my mother wrote an article like this for the WaPo, I would likely develop an eating disorder.