My mom is 45 but she acts like a 18 year-old teenager

my name's mary i'm 20 years old and i grew up with a very strict and religious mother every sunday during church i would say the same prayer to god please god help my mother to change into a different person to make my life easier and more comfortable i never actually expected god to answer my prayers but then something completely unexpected happened living with my mother wasn't easy for dad and me she was very strict and always had her ridiculously high standards as a result of this she gave us both a long list of daily house chores and she could turn from a well-tempered woman into a monster at the slightest thing once when i was dusting i accidentally smashed one of her beloved cat ornaments and she locked me in my bedroom for a full day another time dad forgot to take the trash out so she emptied it into his briefcase mom also liked to have us live by her rules dinner was at 7pm prompt bedtime was at 9 30 pm with no room for adjustment and under no circumstances was i allowed to ever go out with a boy i mean come on i'm a 20 year old girl i started dating this guy called ben in secret he's such a kind caring guy but i knew mom wouldn't see it that way so when i went round to his i had to pretend to her that i was meeting friends it was difficult having to lie to mom and it sucked that i couldn't stay over at his place i was a grown woman but mom made me feel like i was still a little girl as much as dad and i loved mom her strict rules and temper were getting to us one time i overheard mom yell at dad you're a useless old fool and i don't know why i married you i walked into the kitchen to find dad sighing deeply while staring blankly into space turns out her outburst was all because he'd made toast with the bread mom was saving for sandwiches i felt so bad for him so the next time i was at church i said my usual prayer to god i never expected mom to actually alter her ways but then everything changed 180 degrees after the terrible accident my mom had a serious car crash in which the airbag didn't pop out in time she bumped her head hard and ended up in a coma seeing mom lying there unconscious and helpless was horrible i prayed to god for her to wake up even if it meant putting up with her strict rules i actually believed that she was in this state because of me and my evil prayers but then a miracle happened after three whole agonizing months my mother woke up thank you god for answering my prayers again only my mother was looking at me like i was a complete stranger then she said to me sweetie do you go to my school as you look familiar huh what was going on then when she saw her reflection in the mirror she screamed and said how am i so old this mirror's broken the doctor ran some tests turns out mom lost all her memories that happened after she was 18. so in my mother's mind she's still an 18 year old school girl having a mother with the mindset of a teenage girl was well difficult we had to decorate the spare room with a load of posters of bands from the 80s i've never heard of before we had to teach her what a laptop was and show her how to use the cooker also she never cleans anymore and she even steals my clothes my dad now works a lot and i'm stuck playing mum to my mom i once caught her trying to sneak out in my mini skirt and tie-dye t-shirt and i fold in my arms and scowled at her you're not going out dressed like that she got so mad with me and sulked off to her room omg i just realized i was becoming my mother but she did look ridiculous she's a 45 year old woman not some teenaged girl but after the initial shock of my mother acting like a completely different person i began to warm to her she was funny super curious and most importantly of all she didn't care about rules although one time my cell rang this startled her so much that she grabbed it and threw it in the sink yeah i wasn't overly impressed but i guess it was kind of funny she just didn't understand this world anymore the one thing i did enjoy was having pamper evenings with her she put scrunchies in my hair and helped me put my mask on then we chatted for hours about school mean girls and cute boys yeah so okay talking about boys with my mom was weird but it felt like this wasn't my mom at all but someone knew entirely then she asked me if i had a boyfriend and i nodded without hesitation now i can comfortably talk about him without being afraid of her judgment i told her ben is so cute polite mature and very talented and he's so good with technology oh he sounds swell she smiled um could you invite him over to show me how to use that face whatsit thing on the computery thing i replied sure um i mean sure wendy this was great now not only could i be open about having a boyfriend but now instead of feeling afraid of mom i was friends with her ben came over and helped mom out with the computer and things i mean she still seemed completely puzzled by it all but he seemed so chilled around her even when she picked up the laptop and began to shake it in an attempt to get it to turn on um yeah the on button helps i left them to it and went to get orange juice but then i walked back into the room to see her brushing her fingers through his hair when she saw me she quickly pulled her hand away and i was left wondering if i imagined it but then later on when we were watching a movie she made a big deal of sitting next to him did my mom have a crush on my boyfriend no surely not but then after ben left mum said that ben is so handsome unlike that old man that also lives here he has terrible dress scents and smells like cod liver oil tablets this shocked me or dad i guess it was a good thing he was working away so much as i don't think he could have dealt with mum being like this then a few days later mom invited ben over for dinner to thank him for helping her at that point i thought that maybe i was just too skeptical my mother may be childish and impulsive but she would never be her daughter's rival right while i was cooking in the kitchen the two of them were laughing non-stop in the living room they told each other endless stories and it was annoying that my mother kept praising him and jumping up and down like a kid i had to put on headphones and try to focus on cooking so i didn't have to hear those ridiculous sounds but when i finished prepping dinner and took off my headphones the house was strangely quiet where did they go i walked out into the living room to the most horrifying sight while ben was trying to focus on the computer screen my mother was sitting next to him on the sofa her hands all over him what the heck her hand was moving downwards and touching his thigh stop i shouted startled ben stood up that's when i noticed sweat drenched his shirt he stuttered out i i didn't do anything your mother and then he ran away needless to say about my mom she didn't look embarrassed at all on the contrary she turned to me and moaned out thanks a lot mary you scared off my date i went crazy threw a mirror at her and told her to have a long hard look at herself she screamed back at me that ben loved her because of her soul not her age or appearance and you know what my mom and ben are now texting each other i don't know what's more shocking that my mom's trying to steal my guy or that she actually figured out how to text ben showed me some of the messages and they're so bad i actually thought i was going to vomit one message said please ben i want to meet up in secret and kiss you in things mary never needs to know ben explained to me that he didn't know what to do he says he loves me and never wants to risk losing me but he didn't want to be rude to my mom as he knew she wasn't herself poor ben having to deal with all this from now on i'm keeping ben and my mom apart so i've gone from having a secret boyfriend to having a mom who wants to kiss my boyfriend my life is crazy please god i don't recognize my disciplined strict mother anymore and as challenging as it was to be around her i miss her and i just want her back you

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Published: Sat Nov 14 2020