• "I weighed 110 pounds soaking wet when I was your age," (vs. my 135) "but I was too skinny, it didn't look right, you're just right." This is not something you continuously say to someone trying desperately to recover from an eating disorder.
• She stays on the computer all the time doing myspace, facebook, xanga, tagged, and e-mail.
• I haven't had a successful relationship in nearly three years because of her meddling. She used to write my ex boyfriend messages on myspace, call him, text him, instant message him. When we broke up I burned him a CD and put a note in there, she wrote one too and put it in. I took it out. That was nearly three years ago and she still talks about how much he hurt her.
• A guy at the mall liked me, we were texting, and we decided to see a movie. She came along and we had a big fight in the mall before he got off work about how I couldn't go without her meeting him; this isn't really something you want to do when the guy was 20 and with my mother's history of driving boys away. She didn't meet him, he walked me to his car and I explained that I couldn't go and invited him to do stuff with my friends and I, he asked for a rain check and never texted me again.
• For some reason she wants me to be in a relationship really, really badly.
• Every time we go to the mall and he's working she makes it a point to stop at the bench directly in front of his job and claim she's putting something in her purse or can't find her keys. She knows how I feel about that but it's like she thinks if he sees me standing around with my mom he'll start talking to me again.
• Every time I try to explain these things to her, she cries. Which makes me hold more things in than I already do, I was in therapy when I was 13 and a large part of our discussions was my mother.
• The conclusion was that I needed to distance myself from her and not tell her as much as I used to. So, I'm moving in with a friend who lives four hours away.
• I love my mom, but I feel like I'm suffocating. I stay at home with her every day and now it's like she thinks that's the normal thing to do. It's not and I refuse to do it anymore.
• It makes me feel bad when I get in moods like this because sometimes I think four hours isn't enough. I know she loves me and I'm thankful to have her, but...it gets really annoying when I have friends that don't like coming over because of my mom.
• Most of the time she acts more like a teenager than I do.
• She treats my friends like they're her friends, most of them just smile politely and listen...but some of them tell me how creepy they think it is.

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