I'm keeping my distance from my parents but I keep running into my mother around town. Yesterday it was at Walmart, a couple of weeks ago it was at the mall. Both times my husband was not acknowledged (basically shunned), hubby says its a weird feeling but he's ok with not having to talk to my mother.
I call my mother every couple of weeks or so and the last time I spoke to her (about two days before Walmart) she said that she wished we could go shopping or go to lunch together. She even told me about a little tradition that she and my sister have of going shopping the day after Thanksgiving (I knew nothing about it) and wouldn't I like to go along? I know this phase intimately, it's the calm before the next storm. Mother plays nicely nice like nothing has happen, like she has said nothing horrible to me about myself or my husband, like she has done nothing wrong. No apology but everything is ok now. It never last long. Mother can never hold it together before her mouth gets the best of her and the real her comes out, the evil one.
I'm not falling for it this time.
