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[mistriTsquirrel]

...I feel like my head may explode.

After listening to my mother talk about the poor job my aunt has done as a parent for more than a half hour, I just couldn't take it anymore.

I started out by trying to encourage her to be understanding, that we all have our faults, that we all drop the ball in different ways, etc, etc, etc.

She persisted in defending the "fact" that my aunt has really dropped the ball, and that's why her kids are so screwed up, blah, blah, blah.

I lost my temper.

I reminded her of her own "errors in judgment" while raising me. She shouted at me...that whenever she's talking about someone else, I "always" have to turn the conversation into one about myself...and about her. I said yes, that I do that when she's being a hypocrite and talking about others' failings...that I bring hers up in order to make the point that she has done no better.

Now she's going to be in bed for days with a migraine, and it will be all my fault.

I guess I'll be "lucky" if she talks to me before they leave town for Thanksgiving.

I'm so freaking tired of hearing her talk about what's wrong with everyone else...I try to keep my mouth shut, but periodically, I get to the point of not being able to take it anymore.

She makes no attempts to better herself, but criticizes others for not bettering themselves. She makes no attempt to see things from other peoples' points of view, but criticizes people who are judgmental. She thinks that she is the expert on anything and everything, but you'll never catch her reading a book or checking anything out online...though she has no problem being condescending about how little other people know.

So...sick...of...this...

Year after year after year...it's always the same.

Sorry...I just had to vent.