I just can't take it anymore

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13 Nov 2009, 5:43 pm

I hate this house. Everytime any small thing goes wrong Nana blows it out of proportion. It drives me nuts. I lost my phone (which I believe is in Grandads car) and Nana throws a fit, telling me to search everywhere, call everyone at every place I've been today despite the fact that I'm pretty sure I know where it is. I hate living here. Just makes me wanna get it over with, move out, cut my throat, something! And it's like this every day. Some days are worse than others but its just too much. I can't take her telling me off for little things. And I hate the fights. Nana is always telling someone off, if not me then Grandad and it ruins the whole mood of the house. God I wish I could just choke her or something.



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13 Nov 2009, 5:57 pm

She's may be that way because she's stressed out. My father was that way but now that I look back I can see he was overwhelmed.


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13 Nov 2009, 6:02 pm

She is stressed, she is always stressed. When she comes home from work her number 1 goal is to make the household misery. And she suceeds at it too. There's no escape either because when Nana and Grandad are fighting I use the computer to retreat which is in the same room cus I'm not aloud it in my bedroom and when Nana's telling me off I can't even escape there. One time I pretended someone was calling me on my cellphone just to shut her up. Of course I can't lie, that's my personality so I told her and she just called me a smartarse and shut up. She always calls me a smartarse and tells Grandad to shut his mouth everyday. It sucks living here.



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13 Nov 2009, 6:38 pm

So she comes home completely exhausted and stressed from work. What is she facing at home? Is she expected to do all the cooking and cleaning too? I'm just asking-it happens a lot. I'll bet if you tidied up or did something to make her life at home a little easier you would see a big difference. I'm just like anybody else. When I was a kid I thought my mother's purpose was to serve me and never tried to look at things from her perspective. Now that I'm a mother (and I'm doing it alone) I know how overwhelming things can feel to both work and take care of a home. I'm not saying you deserve to be screamed at, just try helping her out and see what happens.


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13 Nov 2009, 6:53 pm

Yeah she comes home and the first words are often a complaint about the house before her work, although she does that too. No she is not expected to do all the cooking and cleaning. Grandad does all the cleaning and Nana will sometimes say how filthy it is. Cooking she sometimes does sometimes Grandad does then she complains the fans not on above the stove, even if no steams coming out yet or anything. I make my bed, chuck my stuff in the washing, would put my dishes in the dishwasher but I'm busy and someone else does it before I have the chance. I don't think Nana's only purpose is to serve me, I think her soul life purpose is to make everyone else miserable. (Sorry if I offend by disagreeing with everything you've said but that's how I see it).



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13 Nov 2009, 7:39 pm

Zeek wrote:
YI think her soul life purpose is to make everyone else miserable.


Yep, that's about right. Misery loves company, but that doesn't minimize your nana's suffering. Don't participate. Don't argue. Be stoic. (Block it out!)


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13 Nov 2009, 8:52 pm

Zeek wrote:
Yeah she comes home and the first words are often a complaint about the house before her work, although she does that too. No she is not expected to do all the cooking and cleaning. Grandad does all the cleaning and Nana will sometimes say how filthy it is. Cooking she sometimes does sometimes Grandad does then she complains the fans not on above the stove, even if no steams coming out yet or anything. I make my bed, chuck my stuff in the washing, would put my dishes in the dishwasher but I'm busy and someone else does it before I have the chance. I don't think Nana's only purpose is to serve me, I think her soul life purpose is to make everyone else miserable. (Sorry if I offend by disagreeing with everything you've said but that's how I see it).


No, that's OK, that's why I asked. It sounds like everyone is taking part in the upkeep of the household. Some people are just miserable. I've known a few and they can be hard to be around. I know someone who is very negative and complains constantly that people don't like her but she can't see that her sour attitude turns people off. It's always someone else's fault. Personally, I remember my mother complaining about my father. She said the first thing he said when he woke up in the morning was "s**t" and the last thing he said before he went to bed was "s**t". It can be hard to live with.


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13 Nov 2009, 9:28 pm

You sound stressed too.

In my house, at times we play pass-the-buck with stress. I complain to my brother, he gets cross with my mom, who fusses at my sis, who criticizes me.

Best you can do, as....

*scrolls* Faith-Cheese

Said.

Be stoic. Calm.

Break...da..circle:P But no, don't actively participate in the stressing and taking-it-out-on-ing.



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14 Nov 2009, 12:27 am

It's kinda hard to be calm when someones yelling at you, I get yelled out for saying good bye to a friend before I go for a shower. It's rude to not say good bye and just leave. Lately I've been playing music really loud on my headphones but when she's demanding my attention I can't ignore. Looks like another ones bubbling up. Great. Anyway back to what I was saying. Box, I don't participate in the taking it outing, except for if Nana tries to cheat me with shower time, we made an agreement 5:45pm but she still sometimes breaches it, that's the only way I start the arguement, sticking to the agreement made. But I don't try and get involved, sometimes they drag me in, sometimes they're shouting at me. One time it was so bad I retreated to my room and Nana followed me there to tell me off and Grandad was talking at the same time telling me to just not say anything so I just pulled the finger and said "This is for both of you". They both left but I got told off later, it wasn't so bad then cus I calmed down. I don't like being in the circle but I feel like I get stuck in the middle (piggy in the middle as well but I'll explain the circle analogy). They fight and I'm trapped in there, not able to escape. Lately I've started cutting and I tell my friends it's just for the endorphin rush but it's not. It's a way to escape.