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My mom gives me conflicting messages

This is second part of the story with my mom: today I asked my mom does she care I buy the jewelry and she said no. But I said to her you give me conflicting messages because you say you don’t care but you grab things out of my hands so if you were at the 99 cent store with me would you grab the jewelry out of my hands and she said; First of all I don’t go and if I did I never stop you from buying anything at the 99 cent store. Then later on I said to her do you want to look at all my tons of jewelry and she replied why do you need my approval to buy the jewelry. SO MY QUESTION: WOULD YOU ACCEPT THE FACT SHE REALLY DOES NOT CARE THAT I BUY TONS OF JEWELRY AT THE 99 CENT STORE. HERE IS THE FIRST: My mom gives me mixed messages on things I buy. She will tell me she doesn’t care how much or what I buy but sometimes when we go to a store and I am going to buy she says you don’t need it or it is ugly so I wont buy it: (But the jewelry I do buy which is a lot my mom admires and tells me it is beautiful.) Here are examples:(1) This past summer We were at a crafts fair and I was looking at rings and I had a few in my hand and she said "how many are u going to buy" later on she said she did not care what or how much I brought. She told me that the only reason she did not want me to buy the rings was because they were ugly. (They were ugly and that was why I put them back and did not buy the rings) ((THIS INCIDENT HAPPENED OVER THE SUMMER)) (2) When I went to a 99 cent store with her I wanted to see about purses (some stores sell beautiful purses for $1.69 - parachute material similar to LeSportac). I have a lot of purses at that price to. As I was taking the colors I wanted she grabbed them out of my hand. Later on she said that the reason why she grabbed them out of my hand and said I don't need more was because she wanted to leave the store. (THIS HAPPENED A YEAR AGO)(3)A month ago My mom and I went to National Wholesale Liquidators to buy a few jars of coffee. On the way out I saw something that looked like a bracelet so as I went to look at it and my mom said it was ugly. This got me mad so we had a huge fight. I said to her I thought you do not care what or how much I buy and she said I don’t but you don’t have to be compulsive. That is when I said to her but I get compulsive when I go to the 99 cent store and she replied that is different - that is a place that supplies jewelry. I said to her “but would you grab the jewelry out of my hand at the 99 cent store” and she said “you just brought a necklace today at the 99 cent store when I was at the bank and I didn’t say anything but at the same time I don’t go to the other 99 cent stores with you.”. At home at dinnertime she said to me she wants me to save money to pay rent in my own apartment and last week when she and I went to a department store I didn’t have to buy 3 pairs of pants in three different colors one would have been enough.


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It does seem confusing, and it's not clear what your mother wants. However, it is also not always clear what you want, and reading your story it seems you've reached a stage where you're testing her more than actually looking at what she says or what she wants you to buy.

I think you might want to decide on a budget ahead of time, and actually get the money beforehand. This way you can have some control over the matter, and so can she. 

Posted 2007-11-20T09:11:50Z
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Love is the battery of life....

Hi,


1.  Yes, the mother's messages are conflicting.
2.  I have the feeling that she has a hidden agenda:
     Teach her daughter to calculate her steps and save 
     money to the more important things (e.g: rents).
3.  The mother want's to be "large" and let her daughter 
     buy those items but at the same time thinks that it's
     not necessary (= waste).
4.  Communication is in words (or writting) and in signals 
     The mother's oral communication contradicts her
     signal's communication. 
5.  I would say that the communications betweem the
     mother and her daughter is very poor. 
Best regards,
    
Posted 2007-11-21T07:20:03Z
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Voterperson, is this you?

It is, isn't it. I'd bet money on it!

So, you used to be into jewelry but you switched to clothes. Interesting. 

How many years have you been torturing your mother this way? No wonder she's acting bitter and hostile!

Posted 2009-09-24T04:55:35Z
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yeah.. maybe oronD is correct.. But you should have found out first why is she doing that.

Posted 2009-11-28T13:53:07Z
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