Hello, I’m 23, and currently living with my partner of 2 years, and her mother. I grew up in a small town with 3 stop lights and our high school only consisted of 450 classmates, (freshman-senior). I grew up with divorced parents, my mother took us in and my dad pretty much deserted us after the divorce. Being raised in the country and my mother was always gone with work and putting herself thru school getting a BA in RN really kinda put a tole on us kids. We kinda taught ourselves how to clean and cook and cope when she wasn’t around. I’m a twin and i have a brother who is 3 years older. He was our dad. Now that i have found love in a female, i moved to the city to be with her. My ways of life are a bit different from hers. I feel like my way of living is not acceptable in her mothers home. I wasn’t raised to clean the house everyday, that includes dusting the night stand and vacuuming the carpet everyday. Maybe once or twice a week but i wasn’t raised in doing all that. If i accidentally slip and forget to pick up my clothes from the bathroom right after taking a shower, the mother complains in spanish and my partner deliberately starts verbally abusing me. I recently lost my job because i wasn’t fluent in spanish. Now, i feel like my partner and her mother are siding with each other and i’m not really welcome in the house. If i’m not busting my butt to find a job so we can move out of her mothers house, i’m getting yelled at for not having a job period. Almost like neither one of them understand that we’re still in a recession and finding jobs in a big city are pretty hard. Especially since i don’t have a degree, or CDL license. I feel like i’m a failure, nothing i do is right or understandable for either of them. Should i just get out of the relationship now? Or let her mother interfere with our relationship and keep putting things in her daughter’s head to push her away from me. I realize her mom is trying to protect her daughter from having to settle with someone that doesn’t have a job and isn’t in school, but i love her with everything i possibly could have. Before we had to move in with her mom, we understood each other perfectly. Hardly ever had arguments. She respected me and appreciated the fact that i helped out. Now that i lost my job, her mother has gotten to her and i feel like i’m not welcome. I don’t know what to do? Someone help. Please!!
Open Question: I currently live with my partner and her mother. Her mother is always in our business, what should i do?
– September 3, 2010Posted in: