TJL’s Reviews > Unraveling > Status Update

OHHHHH. FINALLY. GOOD FOR YOU MARION. SHE CALLED THE MOM OUT ON HER CONTROLLING BULLSHIT AND HER "POOR PITY ME" BS.

Amanda is a product of how you treat her. You don't get to put this all on her.

Ohh my, look at the tears. Like she hasn't called her daughter stupid, or slapped her, or trashed her friends, her music, her way of SPEAKING for Christ's sake.

Amanda is a product of how you treat her. You don't get to put this all on her.

"I appreciate your efforts" LOL WUT? NO YOU DON'T. EVERY SINGLE MISTAKE SHE MAKES YOU LEAP UP HER ASS AND START RIPPING HER APART. WHAT THE FUCK.

Amanda is a product of how you treat her. You don't get to put this all on her.

Yes, great idea, drop your kid off at the "troubled kids home" because you can't be bothered to understand that you're an abusive witch who's reaping what you've sown.

Amanda is a product of how you treat her. You don't get to put this all on her.

BITCH, HE DOESN'T HAVE TO MAKE HIMSELF THE GOOD GUY. YOU DO THAT WELL ENOUGH FOR HIM WHEN YOU TREAT YOUR DAUGHTER LIKE TRASH.

Okay, so we now have confirmation that Amanda's mother has hit her before. In front of her friends. Because she went out to a movie and didn't call to say she'd be running late.

At least now I have some reasonable suspicion that what Amanda's mother is doing is going to be labeled as abuse rather than "caring too much".

Ohhh no. No. No, no, no.

This woman is describing her daughter as a "sponge" who sucks the life out of her, who causes her "nothing but grief"- this woman who jumps directly up her daughter's ass over every single perceived error, DOWN TO GRAMMAR-

And the mom is "not perfect".

I swear to GOD this book had better not be setting this up as a "Oh, mom's just a bit extreme!" thing. Because this shit is abusive.

oh my GOD this woman is horrible. You rip into Amanda for trying to help with the gift bags, getting it wrong, and then complaining about her TONE when she says "Sorry for trying to help, I'll never do it again?"

I'm sorry y'all but this woman deserves every ounce of sarcasm she gets. She's blatantly freezing Amanda out because Amanda's not falling in line with her ideals of perfection.

Add "blatant favoritism of one daughter over the other" to the list. God-damn, but I feel bad for Amanda.

Oh goodie, Mom's adding physical abuse to emotional and psychological. And A+ abuser technique of deflecting everything your husband says by playing the victim and turning everything on him.