Typical Gizmodo article.
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Would work if you get free housing with your work.
What about people that don’t live in cities? Are we going to invest in effective public transportation for towns of 500 or 1,000 people? What about actual rural areas? Or are we going to force everyone to move to cities and abandon rural areas (ya know, the places where all the food comes from?). This is seriously a…
Oh FFS.
Wow in a bad way.
The mother is sending multiple texts and placing at least one call a week (for 5 minutes, ha!). She couches all her hurt in terms of,’we’re paying for college’ and I’m going to behave like a child and give her the cold shoulder over Christmas and not give her presents. This is massively immature behavior. Any adult…
Lol, I find you unsympathetic and annoying. I’ll respond to you as I damn well please.
THANK YOU. My mother called me literally every day when I left for school, until I mentioned it to my dad (I didn’t know that he didn’t know) and he made her stop. She’d get mad that I never called her, and then got madder when my answer was that she called me every day so why should I call? She’d also get mad that I…
You kinda sound like my mother. Two of my brothers and I were close enough in age that we all ended up leaving home for school the same summer. She was also going through menopause so she was either sobbing hysterically that she missed us or going crazy and yelling about all our crap everywhere in boxes and she…
“The fact that the mom would rather turn to manipulative bullshit as a first resort does make me wonder if there are good reasons they’re not closer . . .”
This isn’t projecting a personal experience upon other people’s lives,though. This is all about a narrative written by a parent who multiple times mentions money as a stick-and-carrot tool, because she is convinced that her kid isn’t responding to her unwanted attempts at communication. We don’t even know why her kid…
The sad part is that I can think of two people in my extended family who are exactly like that. One of them (an aunt) tried to do that exact same thing to me.
She was in charge of the fund my grandfather set up for all the grandkid’s education. I wanted to attend a technical college that has courses directly relevant…
How is she being blatantly rude? Venting to your sister in confidence about your mom being annoying isn’t being blatantly rude, it’s just surviving an overbearing parent. Calling your family when you have a reason to instead of just to chat also isn’t blatantly rude - some of us just aren’t phone chatters.
If it was just one of those passing shitty irrational thoughts, she wouldn’t have written it to an advice columnist, because she would have understood that it made her look irrational and shitty in a venue where most people go out of their way to do the opposite. If she wrote it, it’s because she felt it was a…
It is manipulative and puts the older daughter into a bad position. “Indirect communication” is a cute way to say “talking behind her back.”
I saw a lot of myself in the daughter, honestly. It made me feel sort of bad. I don’t have a bad relationship with my mom or anything, but I’ve got anxiety issues that she inadvertently exacerbates whenever we talk. She keeps asking about work, and what I’m doing, and all of that stuff. I know she’s trying to keep me…
Nearly wet myself when Kate said she wasn't dealing with the top brass in Close Encounter
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Yes and yes.
“I don’t think I was dealing with the top brass.”