Submitted by maryam-m-m on June 10, 2009 - 2:50am.
It was a cold Saturday and the and my whole family was was eating pop corns while watching a comedy movie it felt really nice..
i was talking to my mum about how i was worried about my brother that he wasn't good at school and you know all these kind of stuff but the answer was shocking my mum said"i don't give a f***."
I was was so shocked that i left the room and and went to the bathroom to take a break .
then i came back to sit down when a saw my father going out dressed like a teenager ,he looked so weird that we all started to laugh so hard that we thought he was joking !!
He said"what are you laughing at?"
then we understood that he was serious...it was even so late for anyone to go out but he did .
then my mum said "let him go to his b****."
MY mum was the most delicate and sweet person i ever knew what happened to her and my dad??
it popped in my head that they were going through a midlife crisis my mum is 42 and my dad is 46 so it is possible.
so i took my mum a side and asked her what was that all about?
she was amazed that i noticed something different,because she claims that nothing is going on and my mum don't drink at all so i let go of the conversation and went to my room to sleep ,the next day i woke and found my mum putting on weird make up .....
and my dad was not even home yet .
What should i do ?
how can i tell my mum that what she is doing is wrong and probably a midlife crisis without making her feel bad because she always had such confident and pride of her self .
please help!
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Submitted by Greg on July 19, 2006 - 11:46pm.
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Submitted by Greg on August 23, 2006 - 2:39pm.
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Submitted by Wesley on January 31, 2008 - 10:29am.
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Submitted by Greg on June 1, 2007 - 6:07pm.
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Submitted by Greg on October 23, 2006 - 10:28pm.
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Submitted by Greg on May 23, 2007 - 7:53pm.
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Submitted by Greg on April 16, 2007 - 9:23am.
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