gmretirednow: Your mother sounds like a lovely lady who also happened to raise a wonderful son.

I feel bad for you who have a bad relationship with your mom. Mine is great, almost 90 and smart as a 20 year old. I just hope I can be the same. She still tries to do all for all and gets tired out doing all that she does. I buy a few months of cleaning for her. She is real surprised when she goes to write her cleaning girl a check and finds out it is already paid. She lives about 300 miles away so it is a great gift I think... I wish to all a better relationship with their parents because it is too late when they are gone...

hannah i am not trying to be mean or say your feelings are not okay but some of your posts just sound like you are a 2yr old having a tantrum because your mommy did not tell you what you wanted to hear. My 3yr old does not even complain this much

Wow sounds like a lot of self centered and selfish people on here to me. Bad things seem to stick out in life more than the good. Then comes the poor me thing. Still wonder why society has so much bad and negative stuff. I also had a tuff uprising but others have had it tuffer than me (thats how I look at it) I love both my parents for I am alive and appreciate the happiness I have in my life. They must have done something right. Even if it was that I learned from the bad. What are you teaching your children. Your teaching them to hate. Just something to think about.

I get that they are horrible, I was just saying that with a day that just passed to celebrate the mothers that are wonderful it was sad to find postings about ones who are not

Well, latinmami, some people ARE horrible. Those are the facts of life.
I was given up for adoption by my birth mother, then my adoptive mother died when I was 10. My father remarried a woman with several other children, and I was left in the dust. When I was older, I found my birth mother, and I am so glad she didn't raise me. The best thing out of finding her was that I have a brother. He and I are close. She is gone now, and I am not upset.

it's sort of sad that with mother's day just passing that there some horrible posts about some mothers. I know that not every mother is perfect but it is still sad to see people posting these things. I love my mom, people are not perfect and everyone has room for improvement including myself, if you pick apart your family members for all their faults you will have nothing left to love, family should love each other despite their faults that is what i believe family is for, people select their friends based on their qualities, you can not however select your family, love what you have because they are what brought you into this world

my mother and I do not see eye-to-eye. It probably has a lot to do with the fact that I was her physical, emotional and verbal punching bag until I left home and never looked back. My brothers didn't get the same treatment (lucky them). When my mother informed me (hours after the birth of my son, her 2nd grandchild) that I should have aborted him, and it wasn't too late to "get rid of him", I cut what remaining ties I had (which were only there because my father asked me to try to be civil). The woman gave birth to me - but she was not my "mom".

Maybe in elementary school

My childhood may not have been perfect, but I truly believe that my mother loved me and did what she thought was best for me and my siblings. We lost her one month ago yesterday and I am heartbroken. I would journal my feelings, but there are no words to describe just how much this hurts. Regardless, I want to wish everyone a Happy Mother's Day. Make it a good one.

every year I would ask my mom, "what do you want for Mothers Day?" She always replied "nothing". I start writing her poems.
She kept them on her wall in frames. She's been gone two years now and I continue to write her poems. I only wish she could read them.

Thanks mulletthunter- Great advice for those of us who don't have such great memories from our childhoods.

Interesting topic on TV yesterday...a lady wrote a book about it being OK to not like your mother. It is a taboo subject, but being raised in a so-so home with lots of dysfunction and chaos has left me thinking Mothers Day is a very difficult holiday not only for me but thousands of others. I try to be true to myself and go with the funny card. I also strive to be a Mom my kids can love. All in all every expereince made me who i am, and I am pretty grateful. So for those of you who have a hard time...its OK!