Will university be good to get away from this?

Ade C

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I am 22 and am shortly going to university in Edinburgh. I currently live with my Mum, and it is really grating on my nerves to say the least.

I have worked all summer as a supply nursing assistant, sometimes when they were very short staffed, working 45 hours a week. Now in the final couple of weeks before uni, I havent had much of a holiday so have decided to not work (choose my own working days anyway). Yet all week, I have been getting nagged to the point of where I feel like throttling her. All I have wanted to do these past few weeks is catch up on sleep (some of the shifts required me to be up at the crack of dawn, and not finish til after 10pm), laze about and go on my laptop. I am quite thankful to leave on the 4th September to go down.

I dont know why she is being such a cow to be honest. I would completely understand if I didnt work all summer etc, but I have paid tons of tax all summer from working long antisocial hours. Seeing as she is a teacher, she took 2 months off on holidays.

I am quite angry about getting woken up at the crack of dawn still by her banging about and then opening my door. Not to mention when I am on my laptop late at night I find she switches the connection off when I am speaking to friends.

Just had a huge argument with her, as I am presently checking my emails and she said I needed counselling so as you do, told her to piss off. I am shortly going to be doing some part time work when at uni (promotion work for a club in London- allowed to work up to 15 hours a week on my course), with huge earning potential, so that in a few years time I would hope to have a nice place of my own in Edinburgh (am hoping).

Why is she being like this though if I have been working all summer full time when my course for college ended in May? Will I experience any similar problems at uni, or will it do me alot of good? Had enough!!!!!

Also I recently split with my long term partner, and neither he nor her are getting it in their heads. She is even letting him come up this weekend (on THEIR terms) to talk to me, when I have said everything I have needed to say, which angers me more as it means I will have to find somewhere to stay for the weekend. Feel so trapped, all I want to do is meet new people and be independant!
Thanks everyone else :)
Excuse me BurninB? Erm, yes I do actually want to go to uni to get a degree and make a success of my life. However, the uni even on my open day said it's not just about the course, it's like opening up a new door to being independant, making new friends and almost starting a new life. For f*cks sake man, get a grip.
 
I have a grandmother who interferes with relationships and such like you described in your last paragraph, so I know that that alone can drive a person insane. Then to add the rest on to it..

I would suggest no longer living there. Find a house to rent in a place close to where you need to be. It might put a stump on savings, but it will save your sanity. At least for a little while.

There is no reason for anyone other than you to have say in your relationships.
 
I thought people went to university to study and to become successful.

You are going for a different reason

Oh how the times have changed?
 
I thought people went to university to study and to become successful.

You are going for a different reason

Oh how the times have changed?
 
Hi there.
You are your own person and your mum cannot accept that you are grown and don't need her. She has been running your life so long she can't think to stop, so it is a good time to be going away.

The partner thing is atrocious and completely out of line you need to make that crytal clear every time - don't weaken! Your mum might be feeling old and unneeded, but that is her problem - don't let her make it yours.

Have you told her this is your holiday? if you have, she is bullying you for being young and about to do exciting things, meaning she is probably unhappy the way her own life turned out - sad, but also not your problem. If you haven't explained what you are doing, now is the time. i am a parent of 20+ year olds and wouldn't dream of acting like this towards them.

So hang in there and uni will be a breath of fresh air, much needed.
Good luck, Steve.
 
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