Thanks Mom...

Jan 20, 2018 9:26 PM

Thanks mom...

We broke up on New Years.
It was messy at first, but we both knew it was for the best; it still hurts and I'm not coping too well, my mother is fully aware of that fact and still chose to hang a multi picture frame of us in the living room.
I already have a strong detachment from my house and this is going to make being home even harder.
She refused to take it down because they're "good pictures".
Not sure how to handle it, I can barely handle my depression as is.
Needed to dump this somewhere.
FP edit: despite a lot of my posts going viral this week I honestly didn't think this would. To those of you who have reached out to me, I truly appreciate it. Please do not take offense to me not replying, as I'm sure most of you can relate, I am very bad with feelings and will probably leave your messages un-replied to because of who I am as a person. Nonetheless, it means a lot to me to know you guys can relate.
Thanks internet strangers...live long and prosper

Cut out his eyeholes, return to frame

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yes. You should tell her to respect your feelings.

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Burn em

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

At work, I like to print out pictures of Mr Bean's face and tape them inside my coworkers' picture frames.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Put a cutout of another person's head over his

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You should put up your own picture of something your mom dislikes and put it up all over the house. Tell her you'll take it down when she do

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

At some point in life it’s necessary (not possible!) to show your mother boundaries. Usually around 40, but when it’s time, it’s time. Deal.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Show up randomly one day unannounced, walk in and smash it on the ground and then walk out without saying a word.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Just put them up and cut the ex’s face out.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Ur Moms a dick.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Cut out the face of your fav actor and glue his/hers face over your ex face.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Take them down and fuck them off.

8 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 1

@op your mum sounds like a turd... without question she should respect your feelings.

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

When my husband and I got married, his mom tried to move his ex into her house because 1/2

8 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

"They need 2 be around eachother so he knows he made a mistake &theyll get back together. Thats just the way it is & you need 2 accept that"

8 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

- one of many quotes from his mother to me.

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

...and you still married into the family? holy shit

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

She was super nice to me until we were officially married. It was like a switch flipped.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

evil, disingenuous and calculating

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Sounds like she didn't want him married to ANYbody. If he had married the ex, she probably would have pulled something similar.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Sometimes if you love someone, it means loathing family members together, as a team.

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

you're lucky you have that but in the end most people's loyalty is to parents over partners, relationships are never unconditional

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Tell her she need to respect that face that it’s over and move on if she can’t do that she is making your life difficult

8 years ago | Likes 362 Dislikes 3

Politely say "I won't be able to come over as long as you have those pictures up." And don't.

8 years ago | Likes 33 Dislikes 1

"They're good pictures, but looking at them hurts right now. Please don't prioritize making the living room look nice over my well-being."

8 years ago | Likes 52 Dislikes 0

That’s right, you tell her to RESPECT YOUR FACE DAMMIT

8 years ago | Likes 64 Dislikes 0

Oh no, no nooooo abandon thread!!!

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Just swap the picture with a nice one of you and her and I'm sure she won't mind.

8 years ago | Likes 442 Dislikes 3

Or even a CIA logo

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Or mom and the ex, since she likes him so damn much.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Perhaps not, mom might not be over the breakup.

8 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

That would be a very mature and reasonable thing HOWEVER wouldn't it be better to just burn the house down?

8 years ago | Likes 108 Dislikes 2

Naa just burn it with a torch like you do spiders under a trailer.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Count me in for this one

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Listen to this person, @OP. They are clearly an experienced family therapist.

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Valid question. Collective brain of Imgur at work!

8 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

We are a scary super intelligent hive mind.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Imgur plays pokemon, manages to shoot up a school in Campo region

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Super scary super intelligent hive mind. FIFY

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Fair enough. +1

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Or better yet swap in Kim Jong Un

8 years ago | Likes 168 Dislikes 0

I finally get to say it. I get that reference

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Or an actor you think is attractive??

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I vote for this

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Or Vladimir Putin

8 years ago | Likes 27 Dislikes 0

Or nicholas cage. That was a huge hit at my house.

8 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Or some nice Swastikas maybe.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

Maybe not

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

The upvotes confuse me. The mom lacks empathy and the suggestion is that the broken hearted should somehow resolve

8 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 1

Because that's the best way to deal with someone like that.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

You could start a fight over it, but she would never see she has done anything wrong, just that your reaction hurts her. Even if you know she is wrong, having her sad and angry and blaming you can still hurt you all the same. Not a war one is usually ready to start when they are already depressed.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

By going out of your way for the person who hurts you?

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yes, if it's an important relationship

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Maybe it's me but I do not maintain "important" relationships that disregard my feelings. To each his own misery

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

break the fucking picture goddamit son

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

"Sorry, Mom, I won't be by to visit until those photos are taken down."

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Dude - your mom is a selfish cunt. Sorry - but who does that to their kid? You're suffering? Oh, well, here's some salt for yer wounds.

8 years ago | Likes 62 Dislikes 0

Seriously, how fucking rude and tacky is that? If that were me I'd tell my mother to go take a high dive into a low well.

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

My mom.would never do something like this. It's a cruel thing to do and says so much about her and the value she doesn't place on her

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Relationship with her son. I'm so indignant on this person's behalf.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Burn it!!

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Smash them against the wall. It's cathartic and gets the point across. Also this is probably bad advice.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Troll her back. Start coming over when she's out and replacing them with pictures of other people or someone else 'shopped into ex place

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I loved doing this shit to my mom. She never noticed, but I always got a giggle.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

That's awesome!

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

My ex mother-in-law had a huge picture of my then husband and his ex girlfriend hanging in her living room. She refused to take it down,>>

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

So we stopped visiting. My ex mother-in-law and I stopped getting along. And blames me for her falling out with her son.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

My advice, just don't go over. Meet your mother at a restaurant instead of her house. Eventually she'll take it down

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I’m sorry. My mom went through my childhood home and took down ANY photo with me in it. Kept the ones of siblings, cousins and my children.

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

wow, messed up. Hope you're doing ok now

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I'm not taking my breakup so well either. I'm here to talk. I know I need somebody.

8 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 1

It gets easier. Promise.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It will. Not now. Not soon. But I know it will. But that doesn't make it hurt less.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Get digital copies of the pics and photoshop something funny in place of you ex. Or email them to me and I'll do it. Replace without a word.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Seems like your mother hasn’t moved on

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Tell me about it.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I mean you could tell her/coerce her to change it and tell her it’s not healthy, or wait till you get into another relationship

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Take the pictures off the wall, give them to her and say exactly this... “This relationship is over, this person is no longer a part of 1/2

8 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

Your life or mine. It is hard enough moving on without seeing their face every day. Please take and keep them down.”

8 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

This #op

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Your mom is a fucking idiot

8 years ago | Likes 459 Dislikes 9

She's being a bit of a bitch

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

TIL OP mom is a cunt. Fur realz

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Seconded

8 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Bitch, the term you are looking for is bitch.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

That's not a mom, that's a birth machine. A mom wouldn't have done this.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

And very manipulative.

8 years ago | Likes 148 Dislikes 2

Agreed

8 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 1

Second this. Very disrespectful!

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

This. There is a time and place for tact and this is not that time. Only an idiot would do something like that in this circumstance...

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

My mom took down pictures of me and my ex without even asking. When my ex asked after those pictures, she told that they're in the trash.

8 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

My mom knows her shit.

8 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Yeah dude. This is shitty for a mom to do.

8 years ago | Likes 40 Dislikes 1

Cheers to that.

8 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 0

Be assertive. Take the picture down yourself.

8 years ago | Likes 843 Dislikes 2

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8 years ago (deleted Aug 3, 2018 11:39 PM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

That seems a bit excessive. If it had to come to that, I think just not hanging out at mom's house would be a better choice.

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 4

Fuck yeah

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Then pee on it.

8 years ago | Likes 57 Dislikes 0

an excellent way to assert dominance.

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

While making eye contact

8 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

And demand a handy

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You'd need a spine for that, and Op clearly doesn't have one if his mother thought that was an acceptable move in the first place

8 years ago | Likes 32 Dislikes 62

Depression is a pretty good spine hider when everything seems pointless, hopeless, and that picture is just a reminder of futility of it all

8 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

I feel like this is something my boyfriend's mother would do if him and I broke up :\ She's a real winner that one

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

(we don't know it's a guy)

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

in such a case simply replace "his" with "her"... simple

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 3

Op commented another post saying she's female, although these days that doesn't mean a damn thing.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

How do you manage to be that much of a cunt

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

well tell me, am I wrong?

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I mean...kinda

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Truth is we don't know what the hell she's like, except for this one thing. Crazy mom does not equal spineless kids.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

no but I can take a pretty good guess and likely more likely I'm right than wrong, infact I'd give it a good 85% or so odds my way

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

so lets encourage op to grow that spine?

8 years ago | Likes 36 Dislikes 0

Is OP an invertebrate?

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

try as you might you'll be wasting your time, it has to come from within

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 10

I agree, but this place doesn't like being direct with people.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 3

nobody likes being direct any more, if you do you're seen as provocative or a troll - even if what you say is only provocative in the sense>

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 6

I guess we'll just have to wait for an update then.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

So I'm guessing you have a massive asshole within?

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

my asshole is regular sized, my intestines I'm unsure about I never had a scan or anything

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Baby steps! take a marker and put a mustache and pioneer hat and devil tail on your ex!

8 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Penis nose?

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Huh?

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0