She's the only person who spends money on me. She buys me stuff, takes me out etc. Other than that she has almost no redeeming qualities. I love her, but she can be very difficult to get along with. She's spent my entire life trying to buy my affection and spending zero time trying to actually get to know me. She always assumes the worst and never gives me credit for anything. In her eyes I'm a complete failure even though I was the first person in my entire bloodline to graduate high school. The first to graduate college. I have a strong marriage. I'm a wonderful mother to my children (who she assumed she would be stuck raising) I volunteer in my spare time. I am nothing like her, and that disappoints her greatly.