*sigh* being home with the momster means less time on DU

since whenever I go home, she still treats me like a kid. She throws a bit of a fit if I stay on the internet for more than two hours. Only if she knew how much time I really spend on the internet---I'd say about eight to ten hours a day.

I'll be missing DU, and a certain someone also. :cry:

I expect to hear questions like "Why haven't you put the newspaper away yet?" and "Can you please make your bed?"

Ferchrissakes, here at college, my newspapers are on the floor, and my bed almost is never made up like it is at home.

I always stayed on campus for breaks. :) I would go home at Christmas and go back as soon as everything reopened. It was a lot more fun spending breaks with my friends than at home.

for the purchase of the temporary house key. I'd rather not spend all that money.

I'm sure she would be welcomed here

and she wouldn't approve of some of the stuff I've been saying here. :shrug:

Even though my husband does a pretty good job caring for me. ;) If I do not return the call they will call and call. So if we do an overnighter at a friend's house on the weekend, I still catch hell for it. :) I feel your pain.

My dad doesn't mind if I don't call him once a week, or send him an occasional email every two weeks. He's very laid back and doesn't require constant contact with me.

up my children's lives. Perhaps you could think up an "emergency" where you would need to run back to school?? Hang in there.

I've done that before. My friend rocks! Here's to you, comrade...:toast:

...that I will never EVER bug my children for not calling me. If I'm itching to know their whereabouts, I will call them.

Your dad seems to be a cool guy.

because of my sexuality if it were to be revealed to her.

I hate keeping my relationships with girls secret :-(

That's a horrible position to be in. I would wait until long after college to come out to her.

I've lived with my parents since I was four months pregnant with my almost 13-year-old son, and the way my mom acts I might as well be a fucking teenager. Sometimes I think I'll NEVER feel like an adult.

Just wait 'til next weekend! ;)

Get used to it and someday you'll realize how precious the love really is.

Moms are like that. Yeah they are.

here when I go home.

Freedoms just another word for nothin left to lose

think about it

she passsed two years ago there are so many things I wish I could share....
*sigh*

its all cycles....

appreciate her while you got her...once she's gone life is never quite the same...

Peace
DR

Lost mine four years ago, and though I did good by her, I never did as good as she did by me. The only gift she ever wanted was a little more of my time, and many times I was so selfish I still blush with shame at some of the memories. :cry:

"If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with."

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What would you do WITHOUT DU ??

I am not suggesting that you don't have a life, but I know myself, that even myself I spend a probably unnatural amount of time here . .

DU is almost the first window I open up each day/night, well, whenever I'm on the web -

But - what if . . . . :shrug:

OK, granted, this is from a Mom but really! This has got to be one of the most selfish, ungrateful threads I've ever seen in the Lounge.
Let me ask a few questions Slink:

who is supporting you through school?
who always provides the roof over your head when you need one?
when you visit someone's home, are you always a slob?
what have you done to improve communications so that maybe you could confide in your mother about your love life?

Finally, how would you like having a kid like you?

Since my kids were fairly small, we've had a catchphrase: "It's in the contract."

If they complain about me bugging them too much, I tell them it's in my contract as a mommy to drive them nuts.

Then they come back at me by pointing out that it's in their contract as kids to be difficult, frustrating, and uncommunicative. And we both have a laugh and get on with life.

Slink and her mom are just following their contracts. Hopefully, they'll be able to renegotiate once slink is no longer dependent on her mother to put her through school and give her a place to hang out when the dorm shuts down. But until that happens, they're stuck with their assigned roles. Slink can't help feeling penned in and disrespected when she goes home -- so asking her to be more grateful is only messing her head without affecting the situation.

:-)

of why your mom gets upset when you spend time on the puter might be that she only gets to see you for a week and it hurts her feelings that you'd rather spend time on the puter than with her.

Try to make sure you find plenty of things to do with her while you're home. If you spend time planting flowers or going to lunch and shopping or something else that the two of you like to do together then she's probably less likely to complain when you do spend time on the puter.

Just some thoughts from my own adventure through the process of getting your parents to see you as an adult. :)

so it's all good now. Thanks for the good advice! :hi: