Well shit man, even if apology isn't needed, that's some serious shit to hear. Can't even imagine my life without my mother. She's kinda crazy, but she's still MY mother.
If you can, try to drop as much as she said as possible. I hadn't even considered the possibility that feminism had restructured the cost of living, because I grew up during and after those changes had already been instilled with the idea that women would be including their incomes. Why? because my mother WORKED when I grew up. Like that was something that was normal in our society, the idea that both parents HAD to work, just to provide for the basic necessities. And I grew up poor as fuck, no luxries; meaning:
no cable tv
plethora of used shitty cars that always broke down (vw bug -in the fucking late eighties, 60's shitty ford trucks, etc.) had to sell them to even sniff a down payment on the next vehicle.
no car when turning 16, or even a fucking drivers license
couldn't afford asvab expenses in high school
had to only use certain amount of toilet paper
no heat in winter, heavy drapes on windows, heavy ww2 blankets to keep warm, chopping and stacking wood in elementary school
almost all clothing from goodwill/st vincent de paul's.
and so on and so forth. But it's all helped me to be a penny pinching miser these days, basically retired at 32, nice comfy low maintenance life. But it's just me, no kids, no wife, etc.
Went on about myself, but that's cause I'm a narcissistic fuck. :tard:
