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"You're a terrible parent," said my 35 year old son.
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<blockquote data-quote="witzend" data-source="post: 573660" data-attributes="member: 99"><p>The consensus? He's 35 years old. While you are his mother, you are not his Mommy. He needs to grow up. </p><p></p><p>L did this to me one time when she was 24 years old and called as we were driving to dinner with new friends in the car and wanted to cry to me that she had lost her job. I told her where we were and why I couldn't talk and that I would call back when we got home after dinner. At which time she wouldn't answer her phone. Then she wouldn't answer her phone for two days. The last time I spoke to her she told me that a major reason that I couldn't be her mother of the bride was that I had not taken that call that very moment and clearly I don't know how to be a mom.</p><p></p><p>Your son and my daughter are spoiled delusional brats. He may be having a hard time with his marriage, but it's not as though YOU were married to either of them. You're and adult, he's an adult, and adults communicate rather than dump on each other. Friends make time when it's appropriate, and understand if something needs to wait a bit. Maybe he <em>was</em> insulted that it was the Packers game, and maybe you shouldn't have been so explicit - "I'm in the middle of dying my hair and I can't talk til I finish. I'll call you back." Lesson learned. But bad mother? He needs to get over it, and I hope you won't take his pity party too seriously.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="witzend, post: 573660, member: 99"] The consensus? He's 35 years old. While you are his mother, you are not his Mommy. He needs to grow up. L did this to me one time when she was 24 years old and called as we were driving to dinner with new friends in the car and wanted to cry to me that she had lost her job. I told her where we were and why I couldn't talk and that I would call back when we got home after dinner. At which time she wouldn't answer her phone. Then she wouldn't answer her phone for two days. The last time I spoke to her she told me that a major reason that I couldn't be her mother of the bride was that I had not taken that call that very moment and clearly I don't know how to be a mom. Your son and my daughter are spoiled delusional brats. He may be having a hard time with his marriage, but it's not as though YOU were married to either of them. You're and adult, he's an adult, and adults communicate rather than dump on each other. Friends make time when it's appropriate, and understand if something needs to wait a bit. Maybe he [I]was[/I] insulted that it was the Packers game, and maybe you shouldn't have been so explicit - "I'm in the middle of dying my hair and I can't talk til I finish. I'll call you back." Lesson learned. But bad mother? He needs to get over it, and I hope you won't take his pity party too seriously. [/QUOTE]
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