A mother is only as happy as her least happy child

Wrong.

Mine didn't care too much when I was unhappy. She only became unhappy when her life went to shit.

Where did you get that claptrap?

Mine didn't care too much when I was unhappy. She only became unhappy when she had to pay my psychiatrist's bills.

Has Miss OP been watching the Kardashians? This exact phrase was the subject of an episode.

Dead wrong.

Plenty of mothers really don't give a shit. Far too many.

I'm with r7

I don't think it ever occured to my mother that her children needed more than immediate and observable happiness. She was a product of her time and her faults at love became my lessons.

lol. why would a gay care about this? It's not like it has anything to do with their lives.

R10 As a gay dad of two kids I can tell you OP’s phrase absolutely applies to me. Maybe I’m overly empathetic, but I feel the pain of my children. I’m not right when they’re not. 🌈❤️

My mother seemed to want me to be as miserable as she was.

r12 Me too

Welp, I guess I should raise my hand, as well.

Let’s see, last week my mother stole from me. She also went through all of my new clothing, opening up bags and going through my purchases. Not sure why, but she’s nuts, so there does not have to be a good reason.

I wish she could be happy for at least one single day, before she leaves this earth. Ain’t gonna happen.

Same, R11. You take for granted the ones who are doing fine and obsess about the one who isn't. It's a story as old as time.

Buck wouldn’t have even BEEN unhappy!

I won’t stand for it. I can’t stand for it. I really can’t.

It was the 1970s. It was our job to make our mothers happy.

Quite untrue, for reasons that are well known to them.

"Children should be seen and not heard."

It takes two to make a good relationship, but it only takes one to make a bad relationship.

R10, gay or not, we're all somebody's kid. And some of the miserable fucks on DL have GOT to be the 'least happy child' referenced. Gays don't exist in a vacuum, you know.

Unfortunately that is the problem of needy dependent mothers. Mothers who feel like their lives are their children - and that their children’s lives are theirs. The inability to accept that separation needs to happen - physically and emotionally is a failure of too many mothers. Too many have kids to give themselves meaning - and ruin their kids lives by refusing to accept that they are their own people and their emotions and lives are independent living things.

[quote] gay or not, we're all somebody's kid.

Yeah, but you're not now. Time to grow up.

Since you're going to play semantics, R23, we're all somebody's OFFSPRING, their progeny, and will be all our lives, long after we're 'kids'. Stop being a dick.

[quote] we're all somebody's OFFSPRING, their progeny, and will be all our lives, long after we're 'kids'

Time for you to cut the cord.