My birthday is at the end of September and I got married at the end of November. I was 21 when I got married. I am telling you this for a reason, honest, lol. I was at my parents house doing wedding stuff, planning for the shower I believe, or it might have been for the wedding itself I can't remember. It was after all 25 years ago now. Anyway there were quite a few people over, probably 5 or 6 at the moment and something happened that didn't make me very happy. So I said, "what the hell". My mom slapped me across the face. I was again 21, less than two months away from being married and I was at college so I wasn't even living in their house.
To say I was shocked was a gross understatement. I was highly embarrassed, shocked, hurt, stunned, mad and probably a boat load of other feelings. My mom said and I quote, "we don't speak that way in this house young lady". Neither of my parents ever slapped us on our face, at least not that I saw growing up anyway and I could count on one hand how many times I had ever been spanked too. I think my mom was shocked to hear me talk like that, I think she was highly disappointed hearing me talk like that, I think she thought I was being very disrespectful to her and my father in their own home, and I think she was very embarrassed that I spoke like that in front of all of her Christian friends.
Needless to say, she was exactly correct on all accounts and I deserved to be slapped across the face. I apologized to her and my father who didn't even hear it and also did so to my mom's friends. I never spoke like that again in front of her, within ear shot of her, and never in her home. That was until she got older and after my father passed away. My mom became a whole different person after my father died, and for the better might I add. She was finally able to be herself, and true to herself. She ended up with Alzheimer's and often times people change when they have Alzheimer's. My mom became way more relaxed and so much more laid back. She would curse sometimes. It always made me laugh when she did, and it still does when I think about her swearing, lol. My mom was a great lady.
For a woman who was a very devout Christian she was so very accepting of my relationship with Doc. This is a woman who stayed married to my father who was medically crazy for real and who was so over the top mentally and verbally abusive to her. I used to beg her to divorce him and she wouldn't because she said the bible doesn't condone divorce. Even though Doc and I are both married to others she was completely accepting of Doc and my relationship. I was very surprised shocked that she was. Relieved too. She loved Doc and in the last few years she usually forgot who I was by name, but she never forgot his, and she knew what he was to me. My mom was my best friend as an adult and it was nice to be able to share with her, aside from my kids, the most important thing in my life. I told her everything about us, the whole "event" issue and the whole nine yards. She would always ask me how things were coming with that too and she would always say things like "those jerks don't have any business or any right to decide what you can do, should do, or will be able to do in your bedroom. Once in a while she would ask me a sort of shocking question too like if he made me happy, or if he provided for my needs. Well given who my mom was I naturally assumed she meant does he make me happy and if I need money or something does he make sure that I am not doing without. At first I responded things like, I was financially okay and didn't need his money or for him to provide things for me. Ummm, yeah, she stopped me the first time and said that's not at all what she meant. Took me a few seconds to get that she was asking me if he pleased me in bed and did he make sure I had orgasms. She knew Doc and I have a medical fetish so since she was so open and asking those kinds of questions, I told her the truth with some details. She was very interested and was wanting to know. After that conversation she asked me more frequently, and I told her. She would also tell me that she was very happy Doc found me and was taking care of her little girl, and on different levels too. My mom told me more than once that my father never made her "happy" and never took care of her needs in the whole 50 years they were married. How sad is that? The one who should have been slapped was my father, lol.
Mashie