Excuse me while I rant for a moment...

I'm so tired of hearing my mother analyze and criticize my friend! Arg! My friend did something that she shouldn't have done a few months ago, I agree she was in the wrong and I told her so, but my mom has used that one incident to make all kinds of judgments and assumptions about my friend and her marriage and all kinds of stuff. Stop it! I'm sorry that my friend's marriage isn't just as perfect as my mother's was, but unfortunately not everyone can be as perfect as my mother. Yeah, right. My mother is divorced. My friend is not, and in fact has been married to her husband longer than my parents were married. She's not perfect, no, but my mother is the last person who should be criticizing her or judging her.

I get so tired of my mom's judgments and her finger pointing down from on high criticizing everyone who doesn't meet up to her standard of a good marriage or a good driver or a good parent or whatever. She of course doesn't see that she doesn't even meet up to her own standards! I wish she would just get off her high horse and shut up.