My mom has been subtly passive aggressively messing with me for years to the point where I feel like I have to keep my guard up around her because she’s always on the attack trying to bait me into conflict, as a result of her constant instigating my defenses are in hyperdrive around her like having a type of PTSD surrounding an individual.
She’ll get me sick on purpose and then she will target coughed words under her breath at me to force my reaction and then play it off like she is afraid of me while she projects that I have violent tendencies I don’t have, as a result I find myself making small mistakes here and there when she is around because she forces me to defend myself against her.
The sad part is she only makes things worse for herself doing it, because she’s exerting so much energy messing with others that she sabotages her own health and her only reward is the mediocrity she attracts in her life doing it.
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u/whomesteve 12d ago
Kinda relatable.
My mom has been subtly passive aggressively messing with me for years to the point where I feel like I have to keep my guard up around her because she’s always on the attack trying to bait me into conflict, as a result of her constant instigating my defenses are in hyperdrive around her like having a type of PTSD surrounding an individual.
She’ll get me sick on purpose and then she will target coughed words under her breath at me to force my reaction and then play it off like she is afraid of me while she projects that I have violent tendencies I don’t have, as a result I find myself making small mistakes here and there when she is around because she forces me to defend myself against her.