Published on 12, July, 2020
My username shows that I have had enough with sending cards just because tradition says a particular date has come round again.
Now it’s mother’s day & it’s nagging at me. I do not want to send anything to my mother. Yet I often cave in because I feel so guilty if I don’t.
Anyone else get this?
i have a particular issue with my mum as I feel she has never properly listened to me and when she did listen she always made it about her. I don’t know if it’s possible that my personality makes me see her as a narcissist (only two other people agree) but that’s how I see her.
i don’t want to give in!
On friday I went in sainsburys and seeing all the MOTHERS DAY sections selling chocolates, DVDs etc I assumed that today, sunday 24th, must be the big day. I bought my Mum some flowers and egg custards. She likes flowers and egg custards. My family thought it was a hoot that I got the wrong day and my Mum gets to celebrate two Mothers Days this year so I suppose that's sort of a happy ending.
When I was about 9 I remember being "sent" to the local shop to buy a Christmas card for my mum (by *her*, I think) and when I got back and gave it to her, she tore into me because I had mistakenly bought a birthday card.
This seems such a weird memory and I'm sure I'm getting some details wrong, but there was definitely a trip alone to the shop, buying a card for my mum and then me being made to feel silly for getting the wrong sort.