By Forward-End-7129 • Score: 1 • April 7, 2025 1:28 AM
I, 23F, was shunned by my entire family for my medical issues.
I recently was hospitalized 4 times in one month. I had recurring kidney infections and was in incredible amounts of pain. During this time, I had to take unpaid leave from work, my boyfriend broke up with me, and my mother was constantly complaining. I asked my mother to stay with me in my hospital room as much as she could for support (which she hated). While I was groaning in pain from a hospital bed, my mom was posting on social media about how annoying I was, and how I was being dramatic for attention.
The kidney infections repeated until we found the source of the issue and I got better. My mother acted differently around me, scoffing, eye-rolling, name calling, etc. All of this came to a head at a family gathering where my mother sat us all down for a "family meeting". In this meeting, she repeatedly hinted to "financial struggles" because of a "medically challenged person" that was "ruining her life". She claimed to be working 2 jobs (she's not) and talked about how the "immense medical bills" were putting her in debt (they weren't)
After the talk, every member of the family was looking my way awkwardly, some glaring, some whispering. The message was clear, I was too much of a burden for my "poor mother". She continued getting sympathy and offers of financial support as I sat off to the side.
I couldn't take the glares and whispers anymore, so I went out to sit in my car, driving off a few minutes later with tears in my eyes. My phone is blowing up with missed calls and hateful texts. My family is mad at me, they think I abandoned my mother out of spite.
Am I in the wrong? Am I really such a burden that she feels the need to lie and cry fake tears to make others hate me?
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