I will - dick move there, Mom.

She came after you on the day you buried your little sister. I don’t think you need to forgive her, unless you want to. Forgiveness is generally earned, and is, I feel, overrated. One does not have to dwell on the savagery that is visited upon us by these slag monsters, but yea re not required to forgive the…

People are always going on about forgiveness. Forgiveness is bullshit. Some people don't deserve it, like your mom.

While I was getting in the car to go to my little sister’s funeral...

My mother was an alcoholic (sober for 12 years) with a severe mental health problem. I was sick, I was 12, I spilled a tv dinner all over my comforter. She threw some of the food and me and screamed, “No wonder your father hates you.”

I mean, I don’t want to call anyone’s mom an asshole, but dang, if the shoe fits...

“I don’t know what you would have done if we hadn’t adopted you- you wouldn’t make a very good prostitute”. (Adopted as a child from a communist country. It was a true statment, but vulgar coming from a parent. Emancipated shortly there after).

“She looks like a clown’s whore.”

As she was putting the turkey on the table for Thanksgiving dinner, “It’s a Butterball, just like Missy.”

Dad when I was 15: “You could stand to lose a few...” I was around 135 then...and I’m 5’7”.

Ugh. I think I’m out on this one. It makes me sad to read these.

I starred this, but not because I approve of your mom’s behavior.

My mom is an incredible woman but suffers from alcoholism. Sometimes she is a very mean drunk and during those times she has said the most cruel things about my appearance- seizing on my insecurities I had shared with her and throwing them back in my face. But the worst was when she sarcastically said my rape was hard…

“You are the fattest person I’ve ever had the misfortune of meeting.” -Mom

It’s the same here in Germany. Plenty of stories came out about abusive nuns and pedophile priests in the las few years.

Thanks to Catholic school, my mother became ambidextrous (she was beaten for being left handed). She regularly had her (too-high) hairdo doused in a sink by Sister Irmalita, who was eventually committed to a mental institution. That’s the least of it. I have no trouble believing anything in this story.

My one aunt is a former nun, who left the convent and became a Jew. I have another aunt who is still a nun, and she absolutely hates it. She is a free spirit, and only joined to escape a bad, abusive home situation, just like her sister did. The other nuns are terrible to her- they force her to eat in silence, they…

I was raised Catholic and spent several years being taught by nuns in Catholic school. While most of them were unobjectionable, there were always a few who were evil scions of Hell. I’m sure they went into teaching purely to give maximum expression to their innate sadism.

Wondering how many of the comments will be a version of yours: “your mother’s experience is likely unrepresentative. Instead of listening to her story, let me tell you about these other awesome nuns I know.”

Oh, oh, I have an asshole-nun story.