Excellent reference to the classics!

Ditch them and come to our Sunday funday!

YES COME ONE COME ALL MY HEART IS OPEN WIDER THAN MY LEGS ON FRIDAY NIGHT

This made me cry, in a good way. Thanks.

aww bb you made me tear up :’3

It’s tough because there is always an innate desire to please, to be a good person to your mother.

I think we should go to moriartys and have a “Nutso Mother-off,” like a Pillsbury bake-off, but with alcohol and other drugs as warranted.

This is my second holiday, sister. It gets easier, I promise. But Mother’s Day will always suck. A thousand hugs to you. It was the hardest thing I have ever done, to walk away from a relationship that was eating me alive slowly, in increments, but because it was my mother it took about a decade longer than it should…

She's not seeing a therapist (there's some issue about not wanting to be seen as 'crazy', thanks to stigmatization of mental health issues), but she's been making slow but steady headway since we've been together as a couple. I don't issue ultimatums but at the same time I do make sure to be blunt when we talk about…

Yay for the ‘PTSD due to long-term emotional abuse’ club!

Narcissism is so hard to diagnose to because the narcissists themselves would never admit there may be something wrong with them and seek treatment. So then we come off like exaggerators when we talk about it. To someone who doesn’t have a shitty mom they can try and explain away the things our moms do as this or…

Just remember that Mother’s Day was created by a woman who had a wonderful relationship with her mother... and that same woman petitioned to have to removed as a holiday because she was disgusted with the commercialization of it.

I hate that shit so hard. I've started telling people that I would not tolerate that behavior from stranger or friend, so I refuse to give her a hall pass for being a shitbag just because she was my mom.

Many hugs to you. My mother was also an alcoholic and she passed away last July. I dread Sunday because everyone is going to drive me nuts about her and overlook the fact that I want to spend the day with my son and husband and not torment myself with thoughts of her behavior.

I have a very close friend with a mother whose narcissism rivals my own mother’s (a terrifying thought). We call ours “momsters”. I’m glad other people didn’t have shit moms like we did, but the lack of a clue grates annually.

Daughter of a hoarder narcissist right here. I feel you. And with Mother’s Day, I can tell you, there is no winning.

One year, I sent her flowers to her work the Friday before the holiday. She called me, bitching that I only did it so that I “seemed like a good daughter.”

The next year, I sent a card. She called me,…

I feel for you. The best thing you can do is to continue supporting your wife and to avoid this getting between the two of you. Your wife is probably making her way towards emancipation from her mother, in her own time. Is she seeing a therapist?

Good luck with that whole situation, it’s so tough. My husband has a very toxic, unstable and just plain mean mother and he finally cut off all contact with her a couple of years ago. It was SO hard to watch her basically toy with his emotions and hurt him for years while I watched and comforted him, but ultimately it…

I know right?! I feel like such a badass with them on, I wish I could wear them all day at work too!