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"He's taking my patio furniture to his place because he lives on the side of town where people will steal stuff off front porches and I want to get rid of this stuff".
I still have no idea where that came from or why she said it.
Welcome to hell...... Welcome to hell.....
Rude is rude no matter what a person’s age. Hold her accountable for now, which is when she’s making the remarks. Be aware that her brain may be losing its filters.
That is to say, has she always been a bit like this or is this a big change for her? If this is a change, and has been worsening with onset of dementia, then Mom may be suffering the effects of her disease. Just try not yourself to take it so seriously. Just respond with "You know, you are exactly RIGHT". If this is just mom? Well, then it is just mom, you know, and not a whole lot to be done about it.
Your examples kind of make me laugh. She's a literalist.
You won’t know unless she is tested or you start seeing other red flags .,
I didn't realize that I had hit that button. Sorry for the confusion.
Is it possible to send her to visit your siblings for a week or two or a month or two each? This would give you a much needed break and time to figure out how much contact you can honestly handle, I couldn't talk to, much less see my mom daily, I would have ended up completely batchitcrazy.
I want to tell you, just in case you haven't considered it, that it is completely okay to set and enforce boundaries with your mom, it is completely okay to say this is not working and we need to look at options that are available for mom, because caregiving only works when it works for EVERYONE.
Your life in the wilds of Wyoming sounds lovely.
All of my siblings are 1000 miles away with absolutely NO interest in helping. I guess they're the smart ones.
Got myself into this situation and now just trying to make the best of it.
My mother always had a miserable, complaining personality towards her immediate family members. But when she got dementia and lost her filter, her behavior got outrageous. If I had a dime for every ugly and foul thing she said to me, I'd have enough dimes to buy myself a tiny house! The argumentativeness is horrible too. I couldn't say a thing w/o mom arguing it. Thank God she lived in Memory Care Assisted Living and not my back yard or I'd have had a nervous breakdown.
My suggestion to you is to stop including your mother in with your friends when you invite them for coffee. Get her signed up for adult daycare or activities that will keep HER occupied and YOU with free time to yourself. Keep your friendships separate and set down boundaries, or else mom will likely be over all day every day. And that's a big problem. Because her rude behavior will only get worse with time.
Best of luck to you.
Nope, she's just rude.
LOL
I hope your ladies weren’t offended by your mom’s comments - if they have elderly family members they probably weren’t.
Living so close to each other, are you able, for your own sanity, to keep most of your social activities separated? Does mom have any ladies of her own age you can help arrange ‘play dates’ with? If so, maybe she can, with a little help from you, entertain them in her own tiny home. Run a couple decks of cards and half a pound cake over and leave them to insult each other to their heart’s content.
Good luck!
But I'm working on taking my own time and she is slowly finding her own groups to attend.
That will help, I'm sure
I found out at Moms AL that I knew the RNs husband, we had worked together. She later found out, because hevtold her, we had dated a few times. The RN says to my mother "Your daughter dated my husband" my Moms response "yeh, she got around". How embarrassing and so far from the truth. This coming from a woman who had me out of wedlock.
I deal with it by accepting that we are now more the parent and they are the child. They are acting like ten year olds. They are angry at life and take it out on the main caregiver.
Best of luck
Stop thinking someone is horrible. That is the first step.
Only YOU are in control of your reactions.
You take what you get with whatever part of her brain is functioning.
If your mother believes you've kidnapped her and is insulting strangers in public, she likely has dementia and should not be living on her own anymore.
BUT you are allowed to change your mind. You don’t have to be a martyr until she dies. You can say that it isn’t working the way you expected, that she needs more company geared for her own age, more activities she can take part in without you. There may be financial implications in all of this, but then there always are – and would have been if you had made different choices earlier on.
Please could you think seriously about M going to an Aged Care facility (even for a few months, she can always leave), and leaving you free to live your own life with your own friends and without a permanent commentary from her?
As far as your mother's rudeness goes, it's not her upbringing. People from her generation were taught social graces and manners when they were kids. If they were rude and made snide comments they usually got hit by the adults in their life or punished in some other way.
Her age really has nothing to do with anything. I was a homecare worker for 25 years and a supervisor at an AL. There were many elderly people who were not rude, snide, negative, petty or miserable. These were usually the ones who felt compelled to "speak their minds" even when no one asked for their opinion. They'd say anything simply because they felt that their age gave them to a free pass to be cruel to others or to instigate trouble. I never hestitated to put a person like this in their place right quick. Being old does not give a person a free pass to insult others or be a bully.
Your mother is a miserable, negative person. She's also jealous of you and your life. This is surely why she started up with the snarkiness around your friends about the rug being "fake". She wants to be the center of attention around your friends. The constantly correcting you over nonsense like something being turquios rather than blue is another example of her jealousy over your life. My mother is like this too.
You should not include her in your social life. Your friends came by to have coffee with you not her. It was nice of you to invite her, but don't do that anymore. Her participation in social activities with you should be limited to family events. She should not be included in your friend circle.
It is not set in stone that you have to continue having her living on your property. If she gets too difficult, move her into senior living. It would probably be good for her to be around people her own age too.
In the meantime, don't be shy about correcting her or putting her in her place in front of others when she starts up with the rude comments. You don't have to tolerate that. Many elders don't think they have to be respectful to their grown children and their homes. They do and often the adult child has to demand this respect.
Your father had a nasty streak then. His generation believed that it was okay to call kids a 'fatty' or any other cruel name.
Most people from his generation didn't give bullying a thought or the often life-long effects it has a child. My mother is as with it today as she was when I was a little kid. She's of that generation where they thought it "helped" a child if they were mocked and ridiculed about whatever issues they may have.
For example, I struggled with my weight since I was a little kid. My mother thought if she bullied me about it and encouraged others to do so that it would solve the problem.
She wasn't entirely wrong. I lost weight because I developed a very serious eating disorder. I gained a lot of weight when I moved back in with her. Therapy and getting the hell out of there helped me to lose the weight in a healthy way.
My generation (Gen X) is so much kinder and honest about life problems. We remember the days of bullying being something kids had to just deal with. We remember our often cruel upbringings by our 'Boomer' or 'Silent Gen' parents and grandparents and learned from it.
Personal story: my dear grandma was the quintessential farm wife. She visited us in the suburbs infrequently; naturally, we preferred to spend our summer vacations on the farm so we could behave like banshees. Anyway, one summer she came to us and we took her to shop at a large import store in the city. Although now it’s become a chain and is quite elegant, in the early days this store was set up similar to Costco but messier - warehouse style with a concrete floor and crates and burlap bags of everything imaginable piled everywhere.
Walking through the busy store, grandma suddenly cleared her throat and spit on the floor! We were mortified to say the least.
We understood about farms and barns and concrete floors but could not fathom that grandma could not distinguish between those things and a store!
Grandma did not have the terrible personality you describe your mom as having; she was funny and creative and the ‘salt of the earth’ but she was losing her filters.
After that incident we learned to cut grandma some slack in her behavior but we also never again took her anywhere with a concrete floor. : )