Family...more accurately mothers!

You can choose your friends but family is forced upon you. Pleh.

My mother would rather buy gifts for people whom she thinks loath her to buy their love then help her son keep a roof over her grand childs head. My brother is a great person, he has fallen on some hard times and my mother is her usual self. When he or I are in need of help she can never help or she will help as little as possible, often not brining her husband in on it. Why? Because her husband would blow his top off he knew that she was allowing her children to starve, let alone her grandchild. I have been at the other end calling to ask for a little bit of money so I could eat and all I got was smugness and a "oh I don't know if I can afford $20" when she had just finished telling me they got a bunch of money from a refinance on the house and she was going to go furniture shopping and then they were going to the casino. I was out on my ass penniless because of her and she takes the opportunity to kick me while I was down. When I talk about it she just laughs like it was funny and oh that was so long ago. I was 5 foot 6 and weighed 110 pounds at my heaviest, I ate white bread and milk for breakfast lunch and dinner. And she whines that her mom was mean to her. Guess I know where she got it from.

Why does she feel the need to be so mean to me and my brother? who is this woman, where did she come from. How can she be the mother of such intelligent and kind children?