My mum won’t talk to me after I called her a “victim”
DEAR DEIDRE: MUM isn’t talking to me since I called her out on her routine of always playing the victim when there’s a family argument.
I’m a girl of 17 and no matter who is having the grumble, Mum always turns it back to her, saying things like, “I’m just a slave to you all” or, “Nobody wants to hear what I have to say”.
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She’s 42 and last week Dad passed comment to me about our food shopping bill when Mum yelled, “I do my best but I’m an unpaid chef for you all”.
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I flipped, saying, “Why don’t you say how you feel instead of making little digs?”.
She hasn’t spoken to me since.
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DEIDRE SAYS: Your mum lacks confidence.
She isn’t outspoken, so she chips in on the end of somebody else having a moan, to get her frustration across.
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She’s giving you the silent treatment as confrontation isn’t her thing either, so be the grown-up and say you’re sorry she’s feeling undermined and encourage her to speak out.
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