I just wanted to bitch about my mother and ask you guys what I should be doing. I kind of have trouble stepping away and looking at this from another perspective.
I got involved in a stupid Facebook meme that's going around where if you comment on someone else's shocking status update, you have to post something shocking from a specific list of shocking statuses, and you're not allowed to explain for 24 hours. In my case, I posted that I've been in 42 relationships.
Now really, I'm 27 years old. I would have had to be extremely busy since I was 20 (when I was in my first relationship) to have had 42 relationships, averaging 6 per year!! But my mother took it at face value and said "Oh, and how many ungodly soul ties?" ON MY STATUS, WHERE EVERYONE CAN SEE IT.
In the first place, I'm pagan. I've been telling her this in stages - she currently has decided I don't believe in any gods, even though what I actually said to her was "I don't worship any gods", which is true enough - I worship a land spirit. I work for gods. But...grarh! My thoughts won't come out clearly because I'm just so steamed right now.
I sent her the meme by private message like I'm supposed to and didn't offer any other comment like "Gee, Mom, that was almost as rude as the time I told you I was bi and you asked if that meant I was going to try to screw my 10- and 8-year-old cousins" like, you know, I wanted to.
She said a few months ago when my fiance let it slip that he was atheist that she wasn't coming to our wedding, and after that I told her that I'm not a Christian. Because until then she was laboring under the impression I still was. I haven't been since 2008. Once I said that, and that I respected her decision to stick to her guns on this issue (because she skipped her best friend's wedding for the same reason), she said she wasn't sure if she was coming to the wedding or not.
Since then I haven't talked to her on the phone at all, only via Facebook, because I don't want to get her ranting at me about religion.
What should I be doing with this? I don't want to deal with it, but I have to.
I got involved in a stupid Facebook meme that's going around where if you comment on someone else's shocking status update, you have to post something shocking from a specific list of shocking statuses, and you're not allowed to explain for 24 hours. In my case, I posted that I've been in 42 relationships.
Now really, I'm 27 years old. I would have had to be extremely busy since I was 20 (when I was in my first relationship) to have had 42 relationships, averaging 6 per year!! But my mother took it at face value and said "Oh, and how many ungodly soul ties?" ON MY STATUS, WHERE EVERYONE CAN SEE IT.
In the first place, I'm pagan. I've been telling her this in stages - she currently has decided I don't believe in any gods, even though what I actually said to her was "I don't worship any gods", which is true enough - I worship a land spirit. I work for gods. But...grarh! My thoughts won't come out clearly because I'm just so steamed right now.
I sent her the meme by private message like I'm supposed to and didn't offer any other comment like "Gee, Mom, that was almost as rude as the time I told you I was bi and you asked if that meant I was going to try to screw my 10- and 8-year-old cousins" like, you know, I wanted to.
She said a few months ago when my fiance let it slip that he was atheist that she wasn't coming to our wedding, and after that I told her that I'm not a Christian. Because until then she was laboring under the impression I still was. I haven't been since 2008. Once I said that, and that I respected her decision to stick to her guns on this issue (because she skipped her best friend's wedding for the same reason), she said she wasn't sure if she was coming to the wedding or not.
Since then I haven't talked to her on the phone at all, only via Facebook, because I don't want to get her ranting at me about religion.
What should I be doing with this? I don't want to deal with it, but I have to.
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