Good god no you are not wrong and no you didn't deserve to be treated like that by your mom. Wonder how she'd feel if somebody stuck her in a corner and beat the s__t out of her! I have 2 kids, and I will never lay a hand on either like that - even if my 17 1/2 y.o. ds may deserve it for how disrespectful he is being to me at the time - I know he doesn't truly mean it, and that if he stops and thinks about how he's acting he will stop it - I EXPECT him to act that way sometimes - perfectly normal for a teenager. Your mom should have been arrested for doing that to you! Here's something I've never told or talked to anybody about - and I'm 44 years old - I've not had eyelashes or eyebrows - not very much anyway - because when I was 5 years old I accidently caught my dad masterbating in the bathroom (in the middle of the day) and he picked me up by both arms (middle of the upper arm), squeezed them so tight I thought they would break, and said in a very angry voice between clinched teeth right in my face "don't you EVER do that again!!!". He didn't stop until my face crumpled and I started crying and told him he was hurting me....He never said another word to me about it, and at 5 he was so big he seemed like a big monster to me - and I was too little to deal with it so I turned the anger on myself and hurt myself over it. It's only been until here lately when I am so busy at work and at home that some of my eyelashes have come back. Yes, I was in therapy numerous years after my son was born, and one therapist finally told me that I was perfectly normal for a person who had been through a series of train wrecks. I hope and pray I never hurt my children like that ever.....and if I do I hope I suffer the consequences I will be due. I won't even spank either child (son is too old anyway), because of this. Children are so fragile and so trusting of their parents we can destroy them in a matter of minutes if we are not very very very careful.
Wishful, honey, I am sooo sorry that you are having to deal with this. It sounds to me like your mother has SERIOUS mental health problems. For a grown woman to pitch a screaming meemie fit over some of the things she does is just NOT normal. It sounds to me like she has a very low tolerance for frustration and that she is very immature in the way she deals with things. I will be praying for you at your interview on Tuesday. You are so deserving of a healthy, happy life, and as long as you are in that house, I am afraid it just won't happen for you. I know you love your mother, but she is pure, unadulterated POISON, to you and to herself. Hang in there, hon, keep posting and know that YOU are NOT the problem. Hugs, Mama Harmony
Kris, call your doctor tomorrow AM, tell him what is going on and you need to come in for an appointment.
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