Letter writer wants to take their mom to brunch – and skip church with her before.
I live four hours from my elderly widowed mother. I will be in her area for a week very soon doing some work, and I plan to take her for brunch on the Sunday that I am there. She does not drive. Making the arrangements, she managed to slide in, “I thought you might like to go to church with me.” Meaning: “I want you to take me to church before brunch.”
The incident that stays in my mind is when my husband and I invited her out to dinner for her birthday. We were planning to make the four-hour trip to take her out. The day before, I found out from someone else that she had, behind my back, invited my estranged sister and her husband. We ended up staying home.Now I can’t seem to get past the idea of her tricking and manipulating me. I’m probably angrier than I need to be. I also have a sense of guilt about the whole thing.
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