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[veek]

It is a sad condition. My only remaining parental unit and I have a decent relationship, usually. But for... nine years, now, she's been doing everything she can to make me feel bad about myself on account of one particular aspect of my physical appearance. At about age 19 or 20 I began refusing to speak to her on the topic, or to listen to her tell me things like "no boy will ever date/marry you because of X." She still brings it up from time to time, sometimes more often, sometimes less. The result is always the same: I refuse to speak about it, she insists, I tell her we'll have a conflict, she insists, we have conflict.

Now, two questions. One, does she really honestly think that the decision to never discuss something with her was easy for me, or is somehow the result of brattiness that doesn't manifest itself in any other way? And two, what the flying fuck is she trying to accomplish?

(I am not, for the record, worried about what boys - or girls - think of me.)