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[razorjak]

I wish the blow-up argument I had with my mom this afternoon was what I felt in the air. But it's not.

Anyway, I wondered how long it would take for her and I to get into a screaming match. Guess the reason we've been getting along the last few years is BECAUSE I was living out of state. She was able to maintain her own lil fantasy of how I lived when I was a few hundred miles away.

The argument ended with her hanging up on me. She cut the "conversation" short. She can be the one to initiate another one.

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[jruske.livejournal.com]

Guess the reason we've been getting along the last few years is BECAUSE I was living out of state.

Yep. I'd say that's a good assumption. It's how I manage my folks certainly.

[razorjak.livejournal.com]

And here I thought she'd finally gotten over her delusion that I had ANY interest in the medical field.

[perrrfect-angel.livejournal.com]

Jak... of COURSE you're interested in the medical field! How could you fail to do so, when you spend so much time at the VA?

[siani-hedgehog.livejournal.com]

Yep. I'd say that's a good assumption. It's how I manage my folks certainly.

yep, same. it's not that i've got nothing in common with them, or that i don't like them. i just can't get along with them when there's too much contact.

[imperfectme.livejournal.com]

My mom does the same thing. She'll pick a fight, then hang up on me, all the time. So I usually decide that since she had the maturity of a 5 year old and hung up on me, SHE can be the one to call me next. Except she doesn't. I think the record was around 9 weeks before I gave in and called her. Moms can be a real pain in the ass.

[lupusyondergir1.livejournal.com]

Wait... she wants you to become a doctor?

Is she smoking the rock?

Not saying you can't do it, but sheesh. You'd be paying off student loans until you were 80!
Seriously, the best thing to happen to my relationship with my parents was their move six hours away.

[razorjak.livejournal.com]

She's been "gently" pressuring me to become a doctor ever since the shrinks told my folks that I wasn't retarded,(1) I was bored.

Hell, I was 17 when I signed up for the military. Which meant I had to have one of my parents sign consent as well. During the process, she did her damnedest to get the recruiter to talk me into going in the medical field in the military.

She's finally given up pressuring me to be a doctor. But she's been trying to get me to go into business with my brother and his wife. They're in the process of building a nursing home. (- Sad thing is, I know he really doesn't want to do it as much as he claims when she's around. -)

Anyway, that wasn't what the argument was about. But it came up.

(1) I went to school in the seventies and in the sticks. Kids weren't "educationally challenged" or "suffering from ADD". They were hyperactive and retarded.

[ladycelest.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad my mom and I get along. Especially cause I live like a 20 min drive from her.