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So, as the day progressed, my mother confronted me about "contributing" to the household ie: give her money for food consumption.
Then, when I offered to just buy the groceries myself for her to use at her disposal, she said she didn't want to walk downstairs to get them (there's no more room upstairs for any food) and then proceeded to start an argument with me.
I assure you folks, I did NOT start this.
Throughout the argument, I got called an array of names among which include: lazy, useless, and smug. (Finally, someone said I was smug!!)
I'm a generally clam person. I pride myself on my ability to debate (not fight) in an assertive manner - a skill I learnt living with my dad (psychological warfare is always more fun anyways)
For anyone who knows me, I think you would agree that I'm not prone to bursts of anger nor am I relatively easy to get rilled up
But I lost it.
The woman, despite my best efforts to remind her that she was doing so, kept interupting me constantly (my only pet peeve), and finally I just SCREAMED (yep) something along the lines of "Would you for one moment NOT fucking interupt me so I can finish ONE GODDAMN SENTENCE!?"
Yep - you heard it first.
All she could say was "Don't talk to me like that..."
Yeah, it just went on, and on, until the point where I just stopped talking. What's the point? You have to pick your battles people.
In the end, I found out that she doesn't care much for me because I'm too much like my father and have aquired his "fight tactics" (I'm so glad too, because he's awesome at debating although sometimes i hate him for it lol) and apparently I make her feel like shit everyday (which she said -after- I told her that's how I felt.)
She ended up apoligizing to me though, which means Renee: 1 Mom: 0. I think it's because she realised that she really set me off, and like I said, it's really hard to do.
I did agree to give her some 'contribution' ($$) for dinner foods and Liam's foods, but that I would pay for my own lunches.
So, I guess that means, Renee: 1 Mom: 1 .... no no, Mom: 1/2
That's better.
I'm going to end this with a word to the wise, pay attention:
When your mother tells you that you don't contribute enough to the house hold (ie: cleaning, chores, etc.) and that she's constantly cleaning up after you, never reply with "Well you're a housewife...THAT'S YOUR JOB".
That's my advice from ME to YOU.
PS> I swear to God, I would give my left nut to be a housewife. Keeping house is a SMALL price to pay to be home with your kids.