Posted on 06/04/2023 1:21:44 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Dear Jane,
I am the mother of a bright, beautiful, friendly 15-year-old who I love very much. But in recent years, a pit of jealousy has started growing over just how talented and popular my daughter has become. I have spent much of my life feeling little more than average. I’m not ugly – but I’m not pretty. I’m not dumb – but I’m not what you would consider intelligent. I have some good friends – but popular is never a word someone would use to describe me.
My daughter, on the other hand, is spectacular. She has an enormous group of friends, all of whom fight spend time with her, she’s one of the highest achieving students in her class, and she has a confidence that most adults can only dream of.
I should be proud of all this, I know I should. But instead I’ve started resenting her for it – despising her even. And I find myself trying to put her down at every available opportunity. I know how silly this sounds. A grown woman being jealous of a 15 year old is crazy enough, but of her own daughter? But I can’t help thinking to myself: 'What does she have that I don’t?
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The millenials and z'ers are probably asking themselves what is a "newspaper" and a column.
It seems a bit contrived, and fake.
That’s because you’re smart!
I’ve seen this and it’s disturbing. Traditionally, parents want their children to have a better life than they themselves have had. But at least some people these days (in my limited experience it’s 100% the mothers) feel great jealousy and are in constant competition with their daughters, constantly wishing to beat them and crush them and show that Mom is smarter and prettier and cooler than their child. It’s a staggering sort of mental illness.
Ya think......lol
At least she’s not complaining that her daughter is younger than her.
Actually, my mother hated me for being smarter than she was. I was a daddy’s girl.
She was, though, absolutely beautiful. Loved to tell me I wasn’t. Big sigh.
I'll take an insane mother for $500, Alex.
This thread is useless unless the daughter is older than 18 and there are pictures.
For beginners, probably a healthy self-esteem and a normal state of mental health.
It seems too well crafted to be organic, and seems designed to make a point.
Smarter AND more intelligent?
It’s actually not uncommon for a mother to be jealous of her daughter, if the mother has unresolved teen issues and the daughter just happened to be more blessed than the mother.
On the other hand, men love it when their sons end up being more handsome and better with the girls then they were.
‘What does she have that I don’t?“
- A selfish, pathetic mother.
The letters are written by the columnist.
Sleep with her boyfriend. That will even the score. /S
Yes it was, but you would not believe how popular those newspaper columns were.
Ann Landers in the morning paper, Dear Abby in the evening, and they were biological sisters.
Myself as a kid could care less, the thing that made me mad, was we were trying to house train a puppy, with newspapers, all around the house, well I always looked forward to the comics, and laid the paper on the floor, and the great dog we had pissed on my favorite comic, "Nancy".
Narcissistic mother better save up for a lonely old folk’s home.
I thought this sounded familiar, except the first time it started with, “Dear Penthouse,”
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