Quote From: ritehereYou may have been abupt, you may wish you had chosen less harsh wording such as "please let me finish", but you had every right to cut her off. (Didn't she cut you off in mid-sentence?)
Please, don't call yourself a brat for acting the way your mother acts. Name-calling is worse when we do it to ourselves.
Yes, you may have hurt her feelings, but she invalidates YOU every time she does it doesn't she? You are merely being assertive.
It may also help you to look at her actions in another way, she may not be trying to prove you wrong, this is your mind working in ways to produce negativity within you. It's possible that she butts in because she doesn't want to forget what she wants to say before you are done? You can say, "hold that thought and let me finish, then I will listen to you."
No, mostly it's my mom trying to insert that I'm showing everyone up. I'm beginning to hear this little voice saying "you're too intelligent" ... it's what my family believes to be true. I know I'm intelligent and I know that most of my family doesn't even have an 11th grade education. I'm always improving myself so my intelligence is more about how much I'm learning --sorry off subject.
Yes, you're right ... my words could have been better chosen ... I just get the feeling that I'm just asserting myself like I should have when I was younger. It feels "hard" yet it's coming to me instantly without me having to think or journal about it. I'm doing ... which is something I'm very proud of.
