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Originally Posted by Open Eyes
So, you are saying that your mother doesn't understand that you don't need her to praise when you accomplish simple things anymore and when you try to tell her that she gets offended instead of actually hearing you and making an attempt to correct her behavior?
Is her praise condescending?
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This isn't about "praise", it is about the opposite. At my mid 40s she has to explain to me over and over again how to use the local train. As if I was 8 years old and had never done it before. Which is completely ridiculous and bizarre. And when I tell her, that I know it myself she is not offended, she just ignores me and starts over again and again and again. It is completely ridiculous.
The thing is that she WANTS me to be 8 years old and helpless and dependent. And she just ignores any objection as if I was speaking a foreign language.