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Originally Posted by A Red Panda
If you bundle up you can still go out for walks! Maybe not an hour if you're not used to the cold though.
So you can aim for it like... 30 minutes when she gets home.... and as long of a walk as you can stomach in the weather... and maybe one Christmas movie tops (hell, invite them to watch it with you. Movies can at least be endured in relative silence and can count as a "family" activity)... I'm sure your mom would complain/criticize you over cooking, but do you think you could offer to make supper at least a few times? Then you could have the kitchen solo (unless your mom would hover over you... which case that wouldn't help). Could you spend some time each night doing chores at home? Boring and tedious, but it counts as a "dutiful daughter" thing, and again, as long as she doesn't follow you around, will give you time to hide a bit. Time your showers for at night when they're still awake. If you can sleep in until she leaves for work that would help then - although she might wake you up? In that case, hopefully it wouldn't last for long.
Is your T planning on doing any phone sessions with you during the three weeks? If so - time them for at night and pre-plan topics that you could endure your mom catching snippits of it. Have your T tell her that to have a session you need privacy. If your mom can't handle that then it'll be scrapped, but your T can duke it out with her for a little bit if she's up for that? (This obviously won't be possible during your T's holiday time). Can you get ahold of any workout videos? If so, spend half an hour each night working out. You could probably borrow one from someone for the three weeks.
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Well, why go on walks when I could go to the gym? I could drive to the gym. The gym I am a member of is right across the street in Boston, but is a 30 min drive from me from my parent's house (different gym obviously but my membership works there). My mom is obsessed with my weight and would r LOVE it if I did that. That would be like 2 hours away from home.
My mom brushed my teeth until I was 13. I was never allowed to work the oven because she was convinced I'd burn the house down. Hell, I'm still probably not allowed to use the oven. But I have no idea how to cook at all. I have learned a very small amount from school. I can make quesdadillas. I could cook them what I have learned to cook though. They might really like that and consider me behaving in a way that is a "part of the family". Hmmm. I could try that once. My siblings most likely won't eat it unless I let my little brother "help" me. That would at least be entertaining.
The problem is that if I am cleaning the kitchen, my mom will sit at the island and just talk at me. She lives in the kitchen. It is her home. It would keep her off my back though.
I have some exercise equipment in my house. I could use that for an hour a day and she would be off my back then.
My T is amazing and actually will not be taking any vacation time when it comes to me. She is scheduled to work the week of Christmas/New Year at the residential program anyway, but there will be I believe no point in which she will be unavailable to me. We are working out how we are going to handle phone conversations because I am quite phobic of my mother coming and listening outside my door even when told not to. The entire house is set up with an intercom system and she could spy on me almost without me knowing. I guess we'll have to figure out when she's working/not working.