Source: Reddit
My (34f) mum (65) got divorced from my dad when I was 20. I had saved all my money for years and had been working 2yrs at this point and the economy crashed and houses were so much cheaper. My dad had remortgaged our house so much it was worthless and the bank had to get it.
I bought with co-ownership so I pay the mortgage on half the house and rent on the other half a three bedroom house otherwise my mum and two brothers (13 Josh & 18 Richard at the time) would have been homeless. Since then I have paid for EVERYTHING and paid off her credit card debt twice ($6000), I buy absolutely everything including food.
For the past 3 years she has become absolutely unbearable, commenting on everything I buy and keeps saying “when I was your age we didn’t have money to waste on X, Y, Z”. It’s my money and I work all the time. She will never give me peace and WFH has just made it worse, constantly nitpicking, asking the same questions over and over, starting arguments and then playing the victim.
Richard is married now and as always everything revolves around him even though he has never done anything. I have said next year when she gets the state pension and has loads more money she’s gone because she’s starting arguments every other day with me and Josh. I told her that she can move in with Richard (he has a 4 bed house) or find somewhere else to live because I no longer care. She keeps saying “what will people think?”, all she seems to care about is what other people think and not the hurt she causes all the time. So Am I A Jerk ?
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