{"id":671,"date":"2006-09-26T01:56:43","date_gmt":"2006-09-26T07:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sacredtriskele.net\/blog\/?p=57"},"modified":"2006-09-26T01:56:43","modified_gmt":"2006-09-26T07:56:43","slug":"norman-bates-im-notyet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sacredtriskele.net\/?p=671","title":{"rendered":"Norman Bates I&#8217;m not&#8230;yet&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What happened to the good old days when parents let their children grow up, grow out and get out? AWAY, I mean.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m tired of being put in the middle of my mother&#8217;s supposed financial difficulties. After the behaviour I saw this past summer, I just couldn&#8217;t give a shit anymore. Why did she need to borrow money from my brother to go to various baseball functions, when I was paying for them? Why did I need to be made to feel guilty for not being a better &#8220;baseball mom&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Why can&#8217;t she just start taking responsibility for her own behaviour and the symptons of her condition, and start taking control? I swear, if it gets any worse, I&#8217;ll apply to have her panelled for a nursing home. I&#8217;m done feeling guilty for being born, and I&#8217;m done being her whining board. Perhaps if she&#8217;d start paying her bills instead of trips to the States and shopping and my gods people, smoking as much as she does&#8230;she could pay things off instead of blaming us. After all, I&#8217;m 34 and have lived on my own, or pretty much on my own for 17 years. If I can learn how to pay bills first, and play later, why the hell can&#8217;t she? And don&#8217;t tell me old dogs new tricks either.<\/p>\n<p>Am I being too harsh on her? I don&#8217;t think so. People that really know her, and see through her martyr bullshit know I&#8217;m not. What I am, is done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happened to the good old days when parents let their children grow up, grow out and get out? AWAY, I mean. I&#8217;m tired of being put in the middle of my mother&#8217;s supposed financial difficulties. After the behaviour I saw this past summer, I just couldn&#8217;t give a shit anymore. Why did she need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[321],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cynical-bytchwytch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}