All out of love.
So, my mother is a weirdo and always begs me for a kiss and a hug and I always reject her. I don't mind hugging, hugs are really nice. I absolutely love hugging. But I don't like kissing. I just... don't. I have no idea about the ~romantic kind~, like between lovers, as I've never been kissed like that, but the kind between family or friends is just... ick. No thanks. Hugs are a thousand percent alright, but please don't kiss me, not even as a greeting, unless you were my boyfriend...
So I'm coming back up from doing the laundry, and my mother is looking at me strangely. And I ask her why she's staring at me like that and she starts begging for a hug and a kiss again and pretends to get all offended when I say, "of course not."
Then she says something like, "why do you always reject me?! I never reject you like this!"
See, that's BS right there! She's rejected me plenty of times when I was younger and wanted to be around her. I told her this too, back in my middle school/early high school days when I was 12~15 years old, I wanted to just hang around my mother in her room and watch TV or something. Nothing special, I just wanted to sit with her or something. Just to be around her. (This is a trait that I still have, many years later, but instead of it being directed to my mother, it's instead directed to whoever might possibly have the ability to become my future husband. I don't care what we do, really, just so long as I'm with the person I love.)
But 90% of the time, she would tell me to go away, that she needed to be alone. She almost always rejected me back then. And I told her this when she asked when has she ever rejected me, and she said, "I know, but that's because you've never been in love. And you've definitely never been hurt."
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I stood there, didn't say anything, but smiled to myself, thinking, "Funny she should say that on this day of all days," considering the date.
So I'm coming back up from doing the laundry, and my mother is looking at me strangely. And I ask her why she's staring at me like that and she starts begging for a hug and a kiss again and pretends to get all offended when I say, "of course not."
Then she says something like, "why do you always reject me?! I never reject you like this!"
See, that's BS right there! She's rejected me plenty of times when I was younger and wanted to be around her. I told her this too, back in my middle school/early high school days when I was 12~15 years old, I wanted to just hang around my mother in her room and watch TV or something. Nothing special, I just wanted to sit with her or something. Just to be around her. (This is a trait that I still have, many years later, but instead of it being directed to my mother, it's instead directed to whoever might possibly have the ability to become my future husband. I don't care what we do, really, just so long as I'm with the person I love.)
But 90% of the time, she would tell me to go away, that she needed to be alone. She almost always rejected me back then. And I told her this when she asked when has she ever rejected me, and she said, "I know, but that's because you've never been in love. And you've definitely never been hurt."
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I stood there, didn't say anything, but smiled to myself, thinking, "Funny she should say that on this day of all days," considering the date.