My mother bad-mouths everybody, too. We're all used to it. We don't even get mad about that. It took me a long time to learn, she's just a contrarian. She will say one thing then turn around and say another. Learning that blew apart everything I ever knew. Here she told me life is one way, then I learn she says it's totally the other. Crazy-making!

I think both our mothers just really have a PD. That's the sad truth. We could just feel sorry for them.