Ginger-lyn Summer wrote:


My mother was sort of like that. No matter what I did, it was never
good enough. I used to joke that I could be President of the United
States, and her only comment would be "When are you going to get
married and give me a grandchild?"

I did get married before she died, but she'll wait forever for that
grandchild. She's got plenty of grandkitties, though ;-)

Ginger-lyn


I once pointed out to my half sister that she'd never said anything
complimentary about me. She paused for about a minute or so (felt like
hours) then said "you produce beautiful babies."

I'm always weirded out by the way some parents try to divide and conquer
their children like this. Rob's parents (according to his sister) boast
or at least talk about us a lot. We hear all about his sister and how
wonderful her family is. My parents would blame one of us for another
person's deeds, or say something on the order of "your brother/sister
hates you and I don't know what you did to them."

We've tried so hard not to keep the kids in a competition, I hope we've
succeeded.

Pam S.