Universal Senja wrote:
Kugetsu wrote:
She won't let me touch the laundry in fear that I would do something stupid and screw up everything.
Ditto. Surprisingly, I'm also restricted from the kitchen for that very same reason.
I think my mom is the same way. I used to ask her to let me help do these things when I was little and interested in it but no...
I'm at the age now where I should be doing the laundry and not screw things up but she still does all the laundry including my dad's...been doing it for years. Course now she has 5 kids...that's a lot of clothes. Maybe it's easier for her to just do everyone's darks and lights at once rather then us doing it individually and fighting over the machine. As long as it ends up in the hamper and not on the bedroom floor...and we give her fair warning if we need something done in the near future...she doesn't seem to really mind.
It's the folding that takes forever.

Usually one of us helps with the folding.
I do laundry and cook for everyone when she specifically asks me to because she won't be home that evening, which is rare.
I am seriously bothered by my dependency sometimes...she knows that. But apparently she didn't do her laundry (folding the clothes is another story) or cook until she was rooming in college....then after a year she came home again and went back to having laundry done for her.
Guess it's one of those "push the bird out of the nest and see if it will fly" sort of deals. But I feel confident that despite my dependency now, I'll be alright in the future simply because I am bothered by it.