Personal Narrative Analysis

I have had numerous angry spouts with my mother, over countless years. It has gotten to the point that it no longer feels like she’s close to me. Since I do care about my mom I decided to do my paper on her. Since my mom has a short temper it was rather difficult to prepare my approach because if I fail it will be a multi hour argument that accomplishes nothing but makes both parties very angry at each other. After many fails and many arguments, I found that it went well all the way up to when I get to the part where I make a request or requests. When I get there I normally get the “I’m your mother and you live in my house, so you do what I say” response.
The first few conversations failed horribly and ended up just making her mad at me. After about 4 tries on different subjects, she seemed to lower her guard more and was willing to talk more about the issue. The very last try, I had her sit down with me to discuss an issue of how she changes her voice to a very high criticizing tone, she responded very calmly …show more content…
My mom knows the words that just push my buttons, this being said I sometimes would start out very calmly and try to talk with her and she would say something like “grow up” or something else that I feel is very belittling and an argument would commence. The observations were very easy and she would agree with what I would say, when we got to the feelings it would get a little harder as this is where she feels I’m “immature”. When we finally got past that step we tried talking about my needs and it went very smooth and relaxed. As soon as we got past the needs I started on the requests it went from good to extremely bad (most of the time), I would request something and she would either say it’s just how she is, she’s my mother so I should listen to her wisdom or it’s her house so she can do what she