My mom is so ****ing nosy. I am 29 years old, and she doesn't respect my privacy at all. Today, she demanded to know whom I was texting. I declined to answer her, not because I really minded telling her, but because I've had about enough of her intrusiveness. She craned her neck trying to see my phone screen, grabbing at my phone, which I obviously removed from her view and reach. I politely told her it wasn't really any of her business. However, we were in the car (I started driving after sending the text, had picked her up) and she just kept whining to know, so I finally told her I was just texting my T for an appointment next week. But was that the end of my mother's antics? No, no it wasn't. She then asked me if I was making an appointment to complain about how mean she was when I was a child. I, of course, said no, hoping to change the subject. My mother then said well that's how it used to be. She's never forgiven me for not wanting to see her during my first hospitalization. But she just kept wanting me to come home, and if I had come home, I would have killed myself.

I'd have really loved to have been able to tell her that yes, I do need therapy to deal with the fallout from her behavior as a mentally ill mother both in my childhood, and now in my adulthood! But she uses everything against me, so it's pointless.