u/Icy-Feature8538 — reddlx

I'm in my last year of high school, and my mother is the breadwinner. She's always had this personality of not letting anything slide. She doesn't speak to two of her three siblings, spends most of the year without speaking to my father, and started ignoring me when I was 11—I'll be 17 in a few months. Usually, I apologize, and she forgives me, and this happens several times a year (this is the third time since December). Now, she's telling my grandmother and father that she isn’t talking to me because I said I don't like her, which I didn’t, and that I said I hate living in this house. I had an involuntary twitch in my eye and asked her why it was happening. She's a doctor, and she said it was probably stress or a vitamin deficiency. I joked that it was because she and my father were stressing me out, and she immediately got angry with me. I said it was a joke, and she started asking me why, saying that I was the one stressing her out becaue she‘s working too much, etc. I waited until she calmed down and apologized for the joke, explaining that what stressed me out were the constant fights between her and my father at home, and the fact that she has to work so much that I hardly ever see her, and when we do see each other, we fight. Her response was that I'm a bad person who gets pleasure from making her sad. It's been a month since she last spoke to me or even looked at me when she's home, but I need to have a mother... I feel like the only friend in my group who doesn't have parents to ask for anything! (my father is somewhat absent).