I wish I could say that to my mom but I have a whole other flip side of the coin. My mom can't emotionally deal with ANY kind of critisism or even telling her she hurt my feelings. She starts crying and gets so upset that then I have to take care of her.
Here's an example, my mother will just get finished telling me something that is wrong with me and I'll say something like well, that's not a nice thing to say. She acts oblivious to the fact that she said it, starts crying and asks me why I do this to her.
I have always just took it and not reacted to protect her. Does that make sense. Also, if something bad happened to me she couldn't emotionally support me because she felt my pain to much and got so upset. I had to deal with stuff by myself and pretend everything was OK because she couldn't handle it. It was like she didn't know where she ended and I began.