31-year-old daughter calls out her mother for ditching her birthday for a date: ‘I had planned my weekend around that commitment, and she still chose to leave after I expressed how much it would hurt me’

It's often hard to come to terms with the fact that some people would choose romantic partnership over pretty much everythingEven harder to accept that our own mother is one of those people. Of course, this is relative, and it might vary depending on how this mother was feeling at that given point in time. Maybe she was feeling especially lonely those days and saw that as her only opportunity. It is rather pathetic, and she could have let her daughter know, but I'm trying not to be as drastic with my interpretation.We can't forget that the daughter is 31 years old and not an abandoned child, and even though that is part of the equation, she was still counting on her mother's presence on the night of her birthday, and rightly so.Many people put romantic relationships on a pedestal and would ditch any commitment for the possibility of achieving one. It's hard to watch, though. And I believe this mother knows it; otherwise, she would've been more transparent or light-hearted about it.About the daughter being petty, I don't know. I don't really think of these types of comments as a way to make somebody understand something, because most of the time they only cause defensiveness; but i…

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