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Of course you should be getting away by yourselves! You're newlyweds for pete's sake! How romantic can things be when mom is around all the time?
And when you get back from your little getaway, you need to start looking for a place of your own and perhaps an assisted living facility for mom, where she will be around folks her own age, and can start rebuilding her life without her husband, and you and your husband can finally start your married life without being caregivers.
You moved in to help with your father who has now gone on. It is not your fault that your mother lost her husband and it is not for you and your husband to now become her whipping posts because she's depressed. It's also not for you to have to become her social life. Did your plans when you moved in include becoming mom's caregivers? I'm going to say they probably didn't.
It's time for you and your husband to move out back into your own place and arrange some care plans for your mother that do not include you having to do everything.
You've raised two points which particularly set my teeth on edge. One is the smell of burning martyr, and your mother is giving off a distinct whiff of this just now. The other is guessing instead of asking: it's much better to ask your mother a direct question and work with her truthful answer than to guess at what her real feelings are in the vain hope of making her always happy about absolutely everything that ever happens.
Just one thing, though. Your short-term memory is what tells you you've left the hot tap running or a pan on the stove, so in relation to her being safe alone at home it is much more important than remembering the presidential succession, for example. How unreliable is hers?
The more she whines, the more you tell her that fine, you will have to stay in respite care for when we are gone or have a full-time sitter. Either way, SHE will have to pay for it and the prices are not like 1975 like so many entitled elders believe.
She wants to be a reasonable adult? Then she can stop whining about how she can't be alone. If she truly can't, it's probably time to investigate said other options before this gets worse and worse for you.
Whether or not you should go - and I think, absolutely you should- if mom has really been saying these things behind your back, maybe have a conversation with her about it. It doesn't have to be acrimonious, mind you, but if you're going to continue to stay with her as her primary caregiver, it might be better to clear the air, so to speak.
However, if you've gotten this tale from a third-party, please bear in mind that there are people in this world that take sadistic pleasure in causing this kind of strife between people for no better reason than it entertains them. It could very well be a "friend" asked mom "don't you think it's disgusting they would leave you alone, you, a poor widow? " and when mom made a noncommittal response, this person runs to you with the tale that mom is "disgusted" with you. If you've gotten this information from another person - not something you've/husband's overheard yourself, please consider strongly the source of the information before you condemn mom.
you wrote:
“It could very well be a "friend" asked mom "don't you think it's disgusting they would leave you alone, you, a poor widow?””
i really don’t think so.
in addition, OP knows her mother, and knows whether her mother would say such a thing.
if OP had any doubt, OP would have said, “i’m not totally sure if my mother said this.”
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it’s very hard to feel happy in general every day…or on vacation…when a parent criticizes, tries to make you feel bad/guilty, ruin your day/vacation.
silent treatment (your mother not wanting to talk to you) also causes stress/emotional rollercoaster. nothing good.
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double message:
go, but don’t go…
it’s like “go have fun, don’t think about pooor, miserable me. don’t cancel your plans. enjoy. i’ll be sad. don’t worry about me.”
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one would have to be superhuman to be totally unaffected by one’s parent’s criticisms/etc.
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from this website, we see that many elderly people try to drag down/drown their children.
i’m talking about the elderly parents who do this intentionally.
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it’s really too bad so many of us sweet, caring people are entangled with difficult people, who try to make us unhappy.
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enjoy your vacation!!!!! :) :)
i’m sure your husband is also saying, “let’s enjoy it.”
:)
husbands/wives normally have wise/encouraging words to say to each other.
hug!!!!