So my mamaw is clearly losing it and won’t admit it because “that’s just how old people are.” I wouldn’t think more of it if it was once or twice, but… well you’ll see. For context I do stay with her but I’m 19 so I’m legally an adult, I just don’t have the funds for a place of my own.

So as soon as I moved in she accused me of a scar on her floor where a knife may have dropped. It looked pretty deep so I doubt it was a knife but she accused me with no proof anyway. After that things were quiet for a while, she complains about me using water when I shower, wash dishes, complained when I didn’t finish her laundry for her, despite it being her underwear. Well not too long ago, she gets up unprompted, grabs some graduation photos, and looked at them before saying to me “I would look at these and be so disappointed in you” which I did graduate, but it was a hell of a time since I essentially swapped schools every semester in that last half, and I do have photos, she just doesn’t have them because she never took any.

Well she also makes me move out of the guest room whenever a major holiday comes around because relatives are wanting to come down and she wanted them to stay so they don’t have to pay for a hotel just a quarter hour down the road. Despite this I still offer to get her food every now and then if I’m off work and have gas to spare and nothing else to do, help her when she’s sick, risk running late for work to help her get boxes of decorations down, etc. Now I went to McDonald’s and when I got back she was mad at me because I didn’t offer to get her anything and called me selfish for it, despite no real obligation to do so.

Well I’m now working at the post office, so I may be able to afford a place to rent. I’m torn on taking the gift I got her back for Christmas, leaving all of a sudden with no word, or just being open. I know the latter is the right thing to do, but at this point I don’t care