I need some advice, my mother and I don't have the best relationship and I want to make it better but we always end up fighting with each other if there isn't a peace keeper around. More often than not, we argue because I criticize her; this usually happens after I have listened to her make negative comments about family members / friends pictures she finds around my house:

-Jane is so fat, can you believe it?
-I hear Jenny had a bad nose job, do you have a recent picture of her?

I'm sure you get it; at some point at about an hour into the conversation I tell her that I don't enjoy listening to her gossip about people - her response, "it's not gossip if it is true." She ends up storming out because she is mad at me. We have had this argument over and over again - she never apologizes to me because she thinks it's my problem and I am just not a good conversationalist.