Being in love is beautiful. Flowers, gifts, and other thoughtful gestures make one feel special. However, read the story to know why the mother was offended with her daughter’s comment and who do you think is right?
Source: Reddit
My (22F) mom (37F) had me really, really young, my dad was never in the picture. She’s still very beautiful and people say we ”look like sisters”, for as long as I can remember, my mom was a very hard-working and independent woman, she takes proud on not letting any men or her family have any financial chain on her, which is super awesome, I admired her until she got on her high horse.
My long-time boyfriend (24M) comes from a very wealthy family, so he tends to shower me with gifts and surprises, my mom doesn’t like it, for her, I’m always relying on his money, which is not true, I have two jobs (one at school and one part-time). A few months ago one of my cousins introduced the terms ”sugar daddy/baby” to her, and from that moment she was sure that was my situation, which IS NOT. I’ve tried to explain to her that my relationship is genuine, that my boyfriend and I are loving partners and that he’s not my bag of money, but she doesn’t understand. My boyfriend thinks I should just ignore her because we both know what’s really happening behind doors but it is kinda hard, I feel like she respects me less because of this.
Well, she has been seeing Ben (45M) for a few months now, and he’s always giving her nice stuff, flowers every week, jewelry, cards, going out to nice places, etc, my mom is really happy, and I’m happy for her. I noticed the hypocrisy but I said nothing because it wasn’t my intention to bring my mom down.
Yesterday, my boyfriend got us matching rings and while he was in the bathroom, my mom made a small sugar baby comment and like divine justice, she received flowers from Ben at the same time, saying that he’ll take her some place nice and she didn’t have to worry about anything but look pretty. She was smiling and I said ”Good! Now we are both sugar babies, mom”, her smile dropped and said it wasn’t funny and that it was different, I just left with my bf, but she texted me saying we need to talk and I need to apologize because ”it’s not the same”. Did I go too far here? Am I Wrong?
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