What's the worst thing your mom has said to you?
By racheld
@racheld (840)
United States
March 26, 2007 2:08pm CST
My grandmother told my mother flat out, she looked disgusting. My mom has put on about 10 pounds since she quit smoking and my grandma told her that she is the fattest she's ever been. And then she looked my mom straight in the eye and said, "I don't know how you can live with yourself." My mom came home very upset and I reassured her that it wasn't nearly as bad as my grandma made it seem. Plus, I'd rather have a mom that's gained a few pounds than a smoking mom who will probably have health problems down the road. I'm just curious if anyone else's mom has said some pretty harsh things to you, if so would you care to share? How did you and your mom reconcile afterwards???
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@spiritwolf52 (2300)
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27 Mar 07
The worse thing than my mother ever said to me was "I wish you were never born." She hated me from the day I was born. Did she ever accept me? No, she didn't. She hated me till the end. She also said that she was never happy a day in her entire life. I guess she didn't want either one of her kids. My brother handled it better than I did. I had no self-esteem growing up. It was very hard to trust anyone after that.
@racheld (840)
• United States
27 Mar 07
I hope things have changed for you since then. I know its very hard to gain self-esteem after going so long without. You just have to focus on the people that you love and love you back. Life's too short to be around the people that make you miserable. Good luck!
@mommey20032005 (264)
• United States
29 Mar 07
My mom once told me I was stupid and I wont be anything in life. I was only 5 at the time and was trying to learn how to spell.
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@lossforredwords (3620)
• Philippines
28 Mar 07
Well as far as I can remember my mom never said any bad things to me or even to my sisters and brthers my mom is very sensitive when it come to our feelings. But heres one happen that my mom accidentlyu hurt me uhmm maybe just a bit, actually its a bit funny too. When i was a little i love to sing and sing everything I even compose my own like if I heard someone saying "do you kow how much...etc" i will make a melody out of it. Then theres this one time i was at my room then my mom heard singing she came to me and ask in a serious manner "what is the matter are you crying?".
When i heard that it came to me, she thinks im crying! my singing sounds like crying?
Anyway, i just felt a bit sad but just for such a short time.
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@mommy2jason922 (529)
• United States
27 Mar 07
well luckly for me i have a great mother!! i dont recall her saying anything bad to me. now my mother-in-law on the other hand, Ugh! on mine and my husbands wedding day she came up to us annd started yelling cause the food wasnt done yet!!! thats the only reason she came to our wedding was for the free food. i only go near her for my husbands sake.
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@KillerQueen17 (32)
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27 Mar 07
my mom has called me a s**t and a wh*re. I just avoided her for a few days. but it hurt. eventually she just starts to scream at me so i end up crying. then i move out for a few days.
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@sangita999 (210)
• United States
27 Mar 07
i am really sad to hear from you. how come your granny says those hurtfull things to your mom.exactly it is thousand times better to have fat mom than smoking mom. after listening from all of you, i can say my mom is the best mom in this world. she never scolds me for without reason. till now i am learning things from her scoldings, i respect her, i love her. i want my mom to scold me. without scolding she doen't looks like my sweet mom.
@wmg2006 (5381)
• United States
27 Mar 07
Goodness! That is so hurtful especially when it comes from your own Mother. I have found that Mothers and daughters are always very competitive throughout life. Mothers always compare daughters to others and badger them into being like other people. My Mother and I did not have a very good relationship growing up. She favored the two boys and my Father favored me. My Father was killed when I was very young, age 8, so that left me to fight my own battles with my Mother.
My Mother always said many bad things to me trying to get me to be like she wished she had been. I was very stubborn because I did not like her very much. She would say things like brush your mop, meaning my hair. She never liked my hair, it was very long and straight. She was always trying to put curl in my hair when I was younger, because she had short natural curly hair. We fought all the time about my hair. When I became a teen-ager I grew my hair below my waist just to bother her. At the age of 17 I cut over 12 inches off my hair. She actually had the gall to tell me I had ruined myself by cutting the only thing I had going for me!
Now this is the same woman that fought with me for years about my hair. I hated to tell her I had a lot going for me. I was tall. slim, outgoing and very personable. She on the other hand was shorter than me, much heavier than me, and shy.
We have worked through our differences now. I am now her caregiver as she is very elderly. She does nothing but parise anything and everything I do to my brothers and the rest of the world.
Mothers can be cruel, because they try to live the lives they never had throught their daughters.
@xParanoiax (6987)
• United States
27 Mar 07
I'm sorry your Mom had to her that from her own mother. I wouldn't wish anyone's mother's to tell them un-lovely things.
But worst thing said to me..ohh...that's a tough one.
I've heard 'worthless', 'stupid', 'lazy'..I've heard "I don't know how you can live with yourself" too lol..I can't pick one. There's too many bad ones. She's possibly seen the light now -- but she hadn't truly realized she'd been saying anything bad til recently -- isn't that terrible? Four years worth of verbal abuse. Blegh.
Anyway..she didn't really try to make up for it, but she acted kinda ashamed..or at least sorry. She didn't really say anything though.
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@steney (1418)
• Philippines
27 Mar 07
I feel for your mom, she must feel really bad. Most children give foremost importance and meaning to comments (positive or otherwise) coming from their parents. No matter what age we're in, we get affected by even the simplest remarks our parents make. I'm 33 years old and the one comment that I can't forget from my mom came when I cooked a dish and she found an uncrushed clove of garlic! My mom is a great cook. I value her opinion the most when it comes to cooking. So when I started becoming good at it, I felt that she was very critical of what I made in the beginning, hence that uncrushed garlic story. But now that I have gained her seal of approval, so to speak, she completely trusts me and is hands down when it comes to my own specialties. I know this is nothing compared to what your mom has gone through, but that incident hurt me too in the past. Maybe your grandma meant well but didn't quite know how to say it. Wrong choice of words? Sometimes people say things differently, maybe she just wanted to say 'do something about your weight, I don't want you to look unpretty' but delivered the words in a hurtful manner instead. Or sometimes certain attitudes just come with old age. Older people tend to be more frank, tactless and irritable. Your mom knows her mother more than anyone, so if she's not used to her being that way, I think she should talk things over with her.
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@vensan882003 (180)
• India
27 Mar 07
i like my mom very much.actually parents r called the visible gods..
she told me many a times to die , but they don't say through heart.they actually like us very much.....
@whimsystoryteller (1743)
• United States
27 Mar 07
I'm so glad that you encouraged your mother the way you did. Your mother needs to tell your grandmother to mind her own business because she's not perfect either.
My mother has said some cruel things on occasion in the past but doesn't tend to do so these days. My father was much worse about such things. What's amazing is that my father has been heavy as long as I can remember but he makes ugly remarks to me about being overweight. What's really funny about that is that a lot of the reason I've gained weight is self-esteem issues that he caused in the first place and going through massive financial struggles over the past ten years.
I finally refused to see him about eight years ago after an incident and told him that unless I can afford to pay my own way there, rent a car and pay for a hotel so that if he makes an ugly comment again, I will be on the first plane back home. I haven't seen him in eight years, though we do get along much better now. He still tries to control things when he thinks he can get away with it but I've learned how to say no real well and tell him to stay out of my business.
It's a hard thing to put your foot down with a parent sometimes, especially when the parent is cruel and insulting and the child just wants to be accepted and loved as is.
I think that sometimes the best thing to do is let the parent know that there are boundaries in the relationship and if they can't respect those boundaries, they won't have you in their life.
I had to make it very clear that either my father stop verbally abusing me or I wouldn't have anything to do with him. It was a hard thing to do but after my last visit to them, it took me two years to heal emotionally and I was 40 and I had had enough of being emotionally and verbally abused. I wasn't going to waste any more of my life on an emotional rollercoaster.
Anyway, that's my story.
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@haiderazakhalid17 (54)
• Pakistan
27 Mar 07
all other things r ok with me but the when my mom gets emotional and start doing philosophical talks then i dont like this attitude of hers.......
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@fahim_hitman (149)
• Pakistan
27 Mar 07
the worst thing my mom said to me was shut up when i was only six years old and i demanded for a toy but my mother said shut up to me
@Cosepqueenie (385)
• Philippines
27 Mar 07
The worst thing my mom had told me is that she said that i'm "adopted"... it really hurts my feelings because i know it wasn't true (she just said that because she was very mad at me at that time... i have a twin sister u know so i am sure that i am not adopted lol... i am also similar to my dad's face and behavior...the "adopted" thing really hurts me and always make me cry every time i remember.
@jiffys_frog_woman (4050)
• United States
27 Mar 07
my mom has told that she wish i was never born
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@monkeywriter (2004)
• United States
27 Mar 07
I hated when my mom told me I was just like my sister very moody. Cause I know I am NOT a moody person. She also said I keep grudges, something I cant. I hate when she thinks I have the same problems she deals with daily.
I think the worst thing was when she told me I could loose some weight. I know I have issues with weight, have since I was 12. But for her to say that to me, it hurt. I needed my mom to be the one person who excepted me and she never did. I could never please my parents. Its hurt me a lot growing up like this. Never able to please them. Lots of hurtful stuff said. But I still think the weight thing was the worst :(
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@Kaeli72 (1229)
• United States
27 Mar 07
Relgion is a HUGE part in my family's life. My mother converted over to Catholic after being raised Luthern. So, when I converted to Judiasm, she said to me, "Once a Catholic, always a Catholic." That didn't hurt me as much as the, "You're Catholic, give up the cult you're in. You're not Jewish. You never have been and you never will be."
I showed her links upon links, showing proof that the Jews were in my native country, but she still hasn't bend. She still sends my Catholic emails after I've told her many times not to. I've stopped sending her links regaurding the laws of not eating pork.
Why can't she respect me like I respect her?
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@mamasan34 (6518)
• United States
27 Mar 07
I am sorry to hear about your moms incident with grandma. It is hurtful and was totally unnecessary! Moms just don't realize that what they say cut's like a knife sometimes. Here is a list of what was said in the past:
You have been nothing but trouble since the day you were born.
I wish you were never born.
Why can't you be like so and so's daughter at church. They are very respectable.
Why can't you be more like your brother?
You are crazy and need to be locked away in a mental hospital (this was said as we were sitting outside of the mental hospital).
You need to lose weight, you are so fat. (She called me Miss. Piggy for a very long time).
You are so stupid, you need to find a job as a secretary because you will never be a fashion designer.
You are weak minded because you can't quit smoking and lose weight.
When I was in the hospital after having my daughter she saw me for the first time in 2 years, she said OMG you are huge! That didn't even prepare me for later.....
the kicker was when I went through 3 days of labor and 8 months of bed rest, gained 80 lbs. and was already self conscious and in a lot of pain, she said to me when I came home from the hospital....You need to lose this weight because your husband is a good looking man and he is going to cheat on you because he doesn't find you attractive anymore, and can you blame him? That hurt me the most. He did end up cheating on me because I shut myself off from him. I was so self conscious after that I didn't feel good enough for him and I pushed him so far away that he ended up doing that very thing I feared. After many years of having this happen over and over, I realized that these were her fears surfacing, not mine. I am very happy now, I disregard what she says and I told her that I don't want to hear it anymore. She is more positive now and we have a better relationship, she still says mean things but I just ignore them. I don't think she means to be mean, she just doesn't know how her words cut so deeply. I love my mother dearly and would not give her up for the world, but I have had to forgive many times over to keep her in my life.
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@edzingers (330)
• Philippines
27 Mar 07
These words: "GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!! I DON'T NEED YOU IN MY LIFE!" I won't forget that night.. :(
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