SAWE, I'm sorry for that c**ppy interaction with your Mom in the past. Sometimes I read things like that and wonder, why do people make life so hard for themselves (and their loved ones)? How easy for your Mom just to say, "Oh, that explains it! I wondered why you didn't call. I should have just called you!" It's like she wanted to be pissed off at you and cause a "rupture". I see this in my own Mom in the past too. I always felt like she made life sooo difficult for herself (and everyone around her). Don't people want to have a happy life?

I think you were really brave too, to ask for the phone message from your T.