Okay, can we talk about
anything without you derailing the conversation and turning it into a conversation about yourself? Can I please just talk about something EXTREMELY IMPORTANT like my college options to you without you going off onto a tangent (in the middle of what I'm saying) about yourself, your Skyrim or Oblivion game, and stories from your past that I've heard a few times before? You wonder why I don't talk to you about anything important, really... It's because of that.
I'm sorry and I don't want to make it seem like I don't care about your past and how ****ty your family was to you, but you talk about it at the
wrong time. We were not discussing your childhood newspaper route and the dogs that followed you on it, we were talking about me possibly taking college entirely online. Again I'm sorry, but I'm trying to make a BIG decision and you're not helping me at all!
You do it EVERY TIME I talk to you about ANYTHING! I'm not exaggerating. Every time, you find some way to turn whatever I'm saying into a story from your past (that I almost always have already heard). A very long story I might add, because you sure are meticulous. You do it when I'm trying to talk to you about important things, you do it when I'm telling you anything about myself, you do it when I'm angry at my brother for whatever bull**** he's getting away with this time (and you do that in a very "my siblings were worse to me so shut the **** up and get over it" way), you do it
all the time and almost never when it's relevant or appropriate.
Again, it's not that I don't care... I don't want to be disrespectful and I'm sure that you don't mean to blow off what I'm saying like that... But I'm trying to get your input on a huge milestone in my life. It's supposed to be a happy time for me, and I was happy because I found an option that I think would really work for me and I was excited to see what you thought of it... But then you somehow turned the conversation into a long, depressing conversation about your favorite dogs' deaths and an asshole sheriff you used to live by using stray dogs as target practice...
And then I tried again a little later and you weren't listening; you were paying attention to your bratty cat who was on your legs instead of your senior daughter trying to discuss an important part of her future with you...
I'll just talk to Dad about it. He stays on topic and gives me actual input. He doesn't use me as a therapist. He always makes me feel proud of myself. I'm not trying to be spiteful to you, but I can't really talk to you about anything. I don't want to stop you in the middle of what you're saying because that's rude, but it's also rude of you to ignore me for your cat and for your depressing childhood memories. And I feel like you tend to care more about my brother and his struggles rather than mine sometimes so that doesn't help our relationship. Sigh.
Don't get me wrong. You're not a bad mother at all. ****, you do so much for us (especially him) that you're pretty much too good. That's what I'm baffled that we don't have a better relationship. Part of it is because I can't really talk to you. :/