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[justalurkr]

So, I'm in the position of telling my mother "supportiveness: you're doing it wrong."

That's gonna be fun.

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[gategrrl.livejournal.com]

I'm going to have to read back with your entries.

But no matter what the problem you need her supportiveness for, yeah, it's not easy, ever, to tell your folks what they're not getting right.

[justalurkr.livejournal.com]

Long story short, I lost my job (surplus) and Mom lost her mind. There will be no peace in the family until I crawl back into the cage corporate America kicked me out of. Less dramatically stated, Mom had a very narrow definition of being employed, job satisfaction doesn't enter into it and I need to quit farting around with pipe dreams about teaching English around the world and get back to work. She keeps linking me to sites about getting one's head on straight.

[gategrrl.livejournal.com]

Oh, if you can, you should totally go for the dream. You learn things about other countries by living there you'd never find out being a tourist.

I'm sure you've thought of it, but you could have her emails automatically go into a folder. Just for those emails.

[justalurkr.livejournal.com]

I'm totally going for the dream!

And I did distance myself from contact with Mom for the better part of two days. (Yes, we're a little codependant at the moment shhhh) She calmed way down in the interrim and we had a nice chat about what a jackass Trump is. I never thought I'd be gratrful for that man's powers of distraction.