Do your conversations with Nmom always get manipulated into…

Talking about her??

Like anything… Just today: Mom called Me: how are you? We are outside home. Mom: oh where? Are you on a trip?( for no rhyme or reason) Me: I’m in Ikea….. Mom: (interrupting) oh!!! IKEA!!!… at our home IKEA is treated like a backyard… (brother’s) giirfriend is always shopping at ikea.🙄

I had nothing to say… Most conversations go like this!

If I say a friend is going through a tough time… she will tell me no one can have as tough a time as she has.

If my husband is travelling for work: Your dad went away for work for 3 years when you were little… I had to deal with everything..

Might be a small thing… but I’m getting more and more annoyed… Sometimes the most banal run of the mill conversations end up where she wants, discussing how other people are troubling her..😒