amycooper | (no subject)

I just canceled plans...on my mom.

She is constantly doing things to control me like making up fake crises (like that time my brother was dying of cancer) to gaslighting to constantly changing plans.

So, she was coming up Tuesday through Wednesday of next week. She calls me today, less than a week away (and after I shifted some schedules at work for coverage) to tell me no, she’s going to come up Wednesday through Thursday.

For my whole life I’d have to constantly shift my life to suit her whims. Today I said no. I told her I had low coverage at work right now and had to shift things around and now cannot take off Thursday. This is only quasi-true. I had taken the whole week off because I had plans on Friday and wanted a buffer day (with my mom, you need a buffer day) and quite frankly with the way my anxiety has been through the roof these past two weeks, I really cannot deal with the stress of this last minute change.

So yeah. I did that.