Not all of our mothers were wonderful.

[oldtime dfl_er]

26. Thank you for starting this thread

I've read every response, and for many of them, I've found parallels to my own life and my own mother. She's still alive, and still loves to play favorites. This can be a very damaging game when you grow up in a large family and are NOT (and I never was) among the favorites. Now that I'm an adult, and she's very old, I can see the illness behind it, but the damage is done, and it is lasting. Division, anger, hate. And she still laughs at the misfortunes of her own children.

I send her a card because I'm a good person, not because I expect her to appreciate it.