A month ago, I had a big dissappointment with my parents. My mum, promised for years to buy us and herself an appartment, in the country where we live. (My mum inherited a big sum of money.)
When I told my parents a month ago, that instead of paying rent for years, we can live in the house of my mother in law now, but have to renovate it (because of the mold), and that this will be expensive, their negative response came to us as a shock, Instead my mother, who lives abroad, will buy a third (!) apartment in an expensive town in the country where we live and openly says, they are sorry but they think there won't be money left because apartment prices went up... Since this fiery talk, I am very very angry on both of them. Though I think my father who is very manipulative and talked my mother into this I always feel that either my mother is wax in his hands or that I maybe have not known my mother well yet..
As a woman almost of 50, I feel akward beeing financially and mentally dependent on my parents and am angry on my self for believing them in the past. Though it helps to talk to my husband who is very angry on them as well it doesnt solve my anger. After at first, being angry on the phone, I lied to my parents, that I understand that my mother wants financial security I try to be polite on telephone calls which I fell is necessary to influence their final desicions in fall, but just feel angry and betrayed.
I am sure they must feel how disappointed I am, for I find myself talking in a cool manner.
As my parents child I feel I owe them loyality as they have helped us in the past with small amounts of money but I am full of anger and feel humilated that my mother did not keep her promise,( not because of an emergency situation of hers but because I because of egoism.
I know that I should not build on them changing their mind, but I can't believe that they have vergotten their only childs situation as we have been a close warm family in the past.
What I wanted to ask is :
How can I and should I accept what happened? How can I forgive my mother, whom I love ? How can I stop that angryness that has been present daily and not feel humiliated? (I try to focus on other things and we plan our future, but it does not seem to help.)