Really Mom?

It's been a little over a year since my mother's husband died. At that time, my siblings and myself were her saving grace, her world, her support structure, and her safety net. Oh, how she loved us at that time. But my brother and I knew that it would most likely be short lived. We predicted exactly what would happen in time. She stopped calling any of us kids, stopped visiting my younger brothers and sister.

Why?

Because there is a new man in her life. Of course. A chunky version of her deceased husband. WTF!?!?!? Suddenly, he is all encompassing to her.

My youngest sister is knocked up, so mom was supposed to visit her and take her shopping for baby stuff. Didn't happen. She went on vacation to Disneyland with the new guy instead.

In 10 years, my mother hasn't visited me, because I live out of state, but I constantly here about how she has never been able to spend time with her grandkids. The last time my kids visited her, she put on the TV at her house and didn't talk to them, since she was too busy entertaining her now dead husbands family.

I wonder if the new dude is kicking down money for her, because I know that all of us kids did when her husband died.

Fuck it, I'm irritated. I'll stop before I start filling up more server space with rants.