So I'm glad and proud that I wrote my mother an email advising her to stop gossiping about our finances. She has always been abusive and I'm not taking it any more. Honestly she acts like I'm a criminal because I ran up a few thousand in debt after my husband lost his job (and my hours were slashed) during Covid and we couldn't meet our expenses. It doesn't even matter to her that we have now paid off our apartment, because we still have a minor debt. I never would have told her but she grills me... but no more. The funny thing is that she has handled her own finances abysmally but ended up well off due to the insane inflation of property prices in our city.


The really hard thing has been that she has all the sympathy in the world for total strangers who are in debt due to hardships. Just not her own daughter.