Reply #15: First off, you are the FEMALE child.

[davsand]

It is EXPECTED that you will excel in language oriented things. Second, my guess is that if he's a lawyer she may be looking for nice stuff to say about him...

...After all, the running joke at my house is my mom needed to have had one more kid to have had a "trifecta." My brother is a lawyer, I'm a property tax geek, and all she needs to be completely unpopular at the SR Citizen's Club is a third kid selling used cars.

:evilgrin:


In truth, I do see how it would cut you to have your mom do that. I think there is some sort of perpetual competition thing that moms from that era have about pushing their kids and playing them off each other.

When my brother drafted legislation that was later adopted as law unchanged from his original version--that was a big deal with our mom and I heard all about it. Now, I have some legal research that has made its way thru the courts and is going to be heard by the IL Supreme Court later this year and she was rubbing his nose in THAT the last time I was over there.

In both cases, it was us doing what we get paid to do, but it made an impact on her and she's proud of us. I suspect your brother hears a fair amount about what you do, too.

In any event, I'm sorry you feel hurt by your mom. FWIW, I think you rock.

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Laura