My aunt came into my moms room saying that she wanted to go see someone in order to be able to sell a big diamond ring my grandma had, and I said "oooooh that big rock" or in Spanish, like I said it,"oooh la rocasa esa", like trying to say that its a big diamond and that it might be priced at a lot. My aunt took it as I had meant it: a JOKE/regular comment, but my mom, as soon as my aunt left, turned to my and said "don’t be impertinent, why do you care or think relevent to you what that ring costs?". I don’t know if this is a me issue or what, but I don’t get how this is such a sensitive comment for her. I honestly think I got this reaction because she was already mad at me. For some context, my mom gets offended by me literally breathing, as if it were a personal attack to her freaking livelihood, it’s insane. I can’t say anything to her because she takes it as if I’m wrongfully correcting or censuring her, like if i tell her that she shouldn’t say the n-word (OBVIOUSLY) or call short people midgets, even if it’s said casually in the car, it has happened that something like that slips out in public and, for obvious reasons, it’s ugly. I hate living with her, I hate feeling like I always have to walk on eggshells with her, it’s exhausting that I (17f) have to deal with my mom’s (a grown ass adult) issues, and I’m tired. They’re little and irrelevant things like this, but I’ve dealt with her being like this my whole life.
omg your mom totally overreacted, you were just making small talk about the ring. sometimes parents get weird about money stuff even when we’re literally just acknowledging something exists lol.