This appears to be an original post from kpete, not the usual cut and paste job.
At first I thought it was a poem by the way it's formatted, but it doesn't rhyme and there is no mention of aching seed, etc.
Nothing really remarkable about the post other than it being such a departure for kpete--posting something original, in her own words, no links.
It's too bad that she doesn't get along with her mom and she's losing her to boot, but it sounds like they have a better relationship than a lot of the other primitives have described having with their parents, truly toxic and irreconcilable.
Sun May 14, 2017, 10:07 AM
Star Member kpete (54,984 posts)
my mother is dying
We never got along
She told me for years
"She loved me, but didn't like me"
This year, she has forgotten who we all are
She is angry
She slaps everyone
When she slapped me,
it felt about right.
Mother's Day has always been yin/yang for me
I wish I could have had a loving relationship with my mother...
Instead, I fill my heart with the love of my children & grandchildren
....................
kp
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029062049Response to kpete (Original post)Sun May 14, 2017, 10:09 AM
Star Member monmouth4 (3,801 posts)
3. You and I share many similarities..n/t
Must have took a lot of restraint not to try and outdo kpete's story about not getting along with her mother. Simply says that their moms were similar and leaves it at that. No one-upmanship.
Response to kpete (Original post)Sun May 14, 2017, 10:21 AM
Star Member MoonRiver (28,136 posts)
5. I'm so sorry for your loss, and conflicts.
No child should have to hear those words. She must have had a troubled childhood to do this to you.
Maybe it's not the mom's fault, kpete might have been a bad kid.
Response to kpete (Original post)Sun May 14, 2017, 10:26 AM
Star Member lunatica (33,634 posts)
6. Same here
My mother was very cruel with words. Sarcasm was her default reaction. And she took guilt tripping to rarified heights.
She was highly intelligent, a UC Berkeley graduate and a wordsmith so her words were very powerful.
I remember when I was as young as 7 or 8 years old vowing I would never be like that.
Lunatica outdoes kpete, but in a low key, restrained kind of way, nevertheless getting the point across that her mom was worse than kpete's.
Response to kpete (Original post)Sun May 14, 2017, 11:05 AM
Star Member mnhtnbb (21,688 posts)
13. You are not alone kpete
in having had a less than loving relationship with your mother.
My mother has been dead for almost 17 years now and I do not miss her. Most of the time I don't even think about
her. Strangely enough, like lunatica's mom (post #6) she was also a UC Berkeley grad (1929) and a smart woman, but she
lacked kindness and empathy. Nothing I did was ever good enough, and when I achieved something I'd worked for
(but she didn't approve of as a goal) she would tell me that if I only spent as much time studying as I did "xxxx", I might make something of myself.
I hold a BS and MPH from UCLA (she never got a master's) and I ended up making more money in a year than she probably
made in her entire career as a French/Spanish teacher. So--according to her standards--I ended up doing ok for myself. Did I ever hear that from her?
Not a chance. So **** you, mom. This is the woman who, when I came home from school and told her JFK had been assassinated said, "it's about time!" and 20 years later had a photo of Ronald Reagan hung on her kitchen wall. In high school, we were arguing about the Vietnam war one night at dinner and she threw the glass of milk she was drinking in my face for arguing with her. When I was in my 20's, she tried to dump a bowl of salad on my head one time when I was visiting with my first husband (whom she adored and publicly told everyone what a mistake I was making when I divorced him) over some minor thing that I disagreed with her about while we were fixing dinner.
Well, she's dead now and has been feeding the fish for a very long time. I did my best--as a mother--to not repeat her behavior with
my boys when they were growing up.
It's all you can do--change yourself and live your life. I hope you have an enjoyable day with your children and grandchildren, or if they aren't near, you at least
hear from them.
Hugs to you.
There, that's the kind of Mother's Day story I've come to expect from the primitives at democrat underground.
