Re: Received gift from mom today

[Guest guest]

Qwerty, for some reason this reminds me about something that happened

years ago with my mom. I'm not a terribly religious person, but was

baptized at 25 when I lived out of the country and had found that

spirituality provided some balance for me. Unfortunately, at that

time, I still told my mother everything that happened in my life, and

so she knew all about it.

One day not long after I was back in the country, she asked for some

help finding some things at the library for her graduate class (note

for the wise: my mother has two degrees and has done about 10% of the

actual work for any of them, I think...). I agreed to help, but once

we got there she started saying crappy things to me when I was trying

to help her, and so I looked at her and told her she couldn't treat me

that way when I was trying to help - she hissed " STOP IT, " and I

promptly left and walked the couple of miles back to my apartment.

About 2 hours later (I was home and really ticked off), she had the

gall to call me up and say this:

" NT, you need to forgive me, because Jesus says we should forgive each

other, so you have to forgive me. "

No apology, no nothing. Just basically telling me that I wasn't

allowed to feel anger towards her because Jesus says so.

And all I could think of at the time was " if that's not taking the

Lord's name in vain, I don't know what is. "

(As I said, I'm not terribly religious, so she really struck the wrong

note with me...)

- NT

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> > What would you think? Innocent gift? Hidden agenda? I just can't

> > trust someone who would send my 5 yo daughter a note about how busy I

> > am homeschooling her.

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[Guest guest]

you should say Oh really? then Jesus will forgive me for cutting you

out of my life goodbye.

Tina

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> > > What would you think? Innocent gift? Hidden agenda? I just

can't

> > > trust someone who would send my 5 yo daughter a note about how

busy I

> > > am homeschooling her.

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[Guest guest]

Laugh... well, this happened 10 years ago, but since she's currently

finding ways to sneak around my e-mail filter to ask if " we can PLEASE

bury the hatchet!!! " (she went absolutely bonkers when she found out I

was pregnant and did so much horrible stuff that I finally went NC for

good - somehow, this is now about me having a chip on my shoulder), I

would guess that I can expect that she'll try that again soon, and

I'll keep it in mind!

*grin*

- NT

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> > > > What would you think? Innocent gift? Hidden agenda? I just

> can't

> > > > trust someone who would send my 5 yo daughter a note about how

> busy I

> > > > am homeschooling her.

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> > > > le

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[Guest guest]

Don't know about you, but there have been times when - had nada asked me if we

could please bury the hatchet - I'd have wondered what part of her anatomy she'd

like it buried in....LOL -Leslye

nottellingyou099 wrote: Laugh... well,

this happened 10 years ago, but since she's currently

finding ways to sneak around my e-mail filter to ask if " we can PLEASE

bury the hatchet!!! " (she went absolutely bonkers when she found out I

was pregnant and did so much horrible stuff that I finally went NC for

good - somehow, this is now about me having a chip on my shoulder), I

would guess that I can expect that she'll try that again soon, and

I'll keep it in mind!

*grin*

- NT

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> > > > What would you think? Innocent gift? Hidden agenda? I just

> can't

> > > > trust someone who would send my 5 yo daughter a note about how

> busy I

> > > > am homeschooling her.

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> > > > le

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[Guest guest]

Well you cant relly bury something she keeps digging up again and

again!

Tina

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[Guest guest]

LOL! , you have given my chuckle for the day! Thanks!

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> Don't know about you, but there have been times when - had nada

asked me if we could please bury the hatchet - I'd have wondered what

part of her anatomy she'd like it buried in....LOL -Leslye

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