gaslighting

[Guest guest]

What are your most notable and infuriating cases of gaslighting from nada?

Mine were

Money. Somehow nada could never recall anytime I gave her money.

She took my dad and uncle to court over money she supposedly didnt get in child

support. My uncle had paid her out of the business that they ran together.

Nada insisted that it was her pay from working there. Problem? She never worked

there a day. I would know, because I worked there. But she became convinced

that she had recieved those checks as a salary. She got really angry at the

judge when he called her a liar.

She was in nursing school while I was in high school and dropped out. We never

did find out why. But her story for a while was that it was so I could get a

cap and gown for graduation. That was nonsense, because I was working and could

pay for it myself, and my dad or any of several uncles would have given me the

money had I asked. When I argued that story with her, it began to change, and

then it became that she dropped out to get a job and keep me from quitting high

school.

Problem? After she dropped out , she didnt get a job until long after I was gone

and in the Navy. Also, I never seriously considered dropping out, but did tell

her once , once mind you, that maybe I should do that and work full time to

support us, since she had squandered her divorce settlement, lost 2 jobs, and

didnt seem highly motivated to get one. She turned that into a self sacrificing

gaslight story about how she gave up her career in nursing just to keep me in

school.

Of course , how sick is that? 17 year olds should not be the ones working to

suppoort a 36 yo mother.

The story evolved again after a while till she had dropped out because the

director of the school had it in for her because I had dated but not married her

daughter! But we were still in High School when all this happened.

And they wonder why we doubt reality.

So, guys. What are your crazy gaslighing stories.

Doug