Here I thought I was going to get through the Memorial season in peace this year.
How wrong I was!
Was this supposed to be a Memorial invitation?
Yesterday I got an unexpected phone call from my mom.
I said hi and asked her how she was.
She said “not very good.”
I told her I was sorry to hear that and that I was concerned about her health problems and asked if she had had any tests done or gotten results.
She said no that’s not why she wasn’t doing well.
I could tell from the tone of her voice that this wasn’t going to be pretty.
She told me that the reason she wasn’t doing well is because the Memorial was coming up,
(That’s as far as she got before sobbing the rest) saying she just doesn’t understand how I can turn my back on the truth and be so unappreciative of the sacrifice that Christ Jesus made for us.
She blubbered and spewed guilt trips till I stopped her and said “Mom I have tried over and over to help you understand where I’m at and why I feel the way I do and everytime you tell me to shut up.
She gets mad and loud and shouts, “I’ve never told you to shut up!”
Then I said, “okay maybe you haven’t said those words but you have said STOP DON”T SAY ANYMORE over and over again and those words have the same meaning and result”
Then she goes into a rant about JWs and disfellowshipping and how it is scriptural and I should agree with it ….
(I don’t know what the Hell that was all about because I’m not DF or Da.)
I said “Mom I don’t want to argue Bible doctrine with you.”
She then completely drops this and leaps a new subject.
She says that the Catholic Church has stuff plastered all over the news about child abuse and the fact that the JW issue has not been exposed in the same way means we don’t have anything!
She basically tells me we are lying about the extent of the problem with the JWs.
I told her not to speak so fast, their day is coming.
She kept pushing asking why it isn’t on national news yet and I told her that it has been in the news just not to the extent as the Catholics because the JWs are insignificant in the public in comparison.
She said, “ That is not true!”
I said “Mom I don’t know why you want to call up and get me and you both upset?”
She said, “I’ll tell you why! Because of what you have done!”
You have ruined my relationship with my parents!
I told her that I have only been truthful with them.
She starts screaming at me “you should have kept it to yourself!
By this time she is completely out of control and will not allow me to say a word.
Every time I tried to say something she would scream louder and faster.
I got a picture in my head of a train running over me so I just hung up on her Psychotic a**!
There was a time not so long ago that I would have felt obligated to be her captive audience so she could dish out all the abuse she wanted.
I was more than patient with her and should have hung up on her sooner!
Ranchette
