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04-28-2011 12:58 PM
I have never had a supportive relationship from my mother. She is an egoist and has to one up everyone that she can. She drops names and wears designer clothes only. She carried Coach or Dooney and Bourke bags, not because she really likes them but because of their names.
I have worked very hard to not be anything like her.
So, I will be receiving an earned PhD in about three weeks. Most of my colleagues at my three schools were very surprised that I had not mentioned it before. To me it was not a "billboard item" and actually kind of embarrassing. I do not want to be called Dr. at my CPS schools. I just told three people at one school that I heard that my dissertation was approved and sent to the printer. I had only had two defense meetings and then heard the words "congratulations" at the end of the second. I am proud of myself and that is all that really matters.
I told my grad students about it last week at the university. Anyway, one of my grad students at the university is an acquaintance of my niece, they both attended the same undergrad school, and she emailed my niece with the news.
My niece told my mother. Mother now has demanded to be not only invited to the graduation but to have a reception for me at this "impressive", but not to me, club where sh lives in Milwaukee. SHE DID NOT RAISE ME!!! She has no right to claim any part of me getting where I am. She will not be invited to the ceremony. I will not go to Milwaukee at her command so she can pretend again that she is such a terrific mother.
Sorry, but I just had to vent to someone other than my husband. He listened to me all night last night. He listened and then told me his kids want to call me "Doc" now, they don't like using my first name. That made me feel even prouder, and calmer too.
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