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Originally Posted by Nammu
Well getting a nights great sleep wasn't enough to block my temper. Physically I feel great but mentally I just want a day alone. I had it all planed out. Wash the bedding, make sweat-n-sour chicken and take a shower. Mum had gone back to bed so I thought she was done with the washer/dryer. A lighthearted Christmas movie was just over and I was going down to get my sheets up and here comes mum huffing and puffing, you left your sheets downstairs. That irritates me cause I was just planing to get them. I go make my bed then get in the shower, I get wetted down, then there's no water! At least I hadn't got to the shampoo yet! I was yelling and throwing a fit because my plans were affected. But it is true that every time I plan to shower mum takes a shower or washes clothes. There's not enough water pressure for both. And not enough hot water for two showers the same day. I had planed to shower yesterday but mum beat me to it. So I acted like an *** and now feel like one! At least I made a nice lunch for us today. That turned out.
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Oh, my!
I cannot imagine having those types of issues to work out on top of everything else we have to "hammer out" in order to co-exist with our moms! Mothers can be sweet and loving, of course! Yet, start messing with their showers and/or with their "laundry day," look out!
Oh, I wonder if that might work for you, Nammu? Here, we each have a laundry day. We do laundry other days, too. We both negotiate using the washer whenever. Yet, on our "laundry day," there is no negotiation and my day is my day. Period.
SHe can use the washer on my day, if I am done and only if I am done. Vice versa.
Showers? Sounds like that is a very tough situation.
Sounds like it might be contingent upon your mom being willing to shower every other day, so you can have a chance to shower?
And so... you've had a hard day? Don't be too hard on yourself!
