I keep needing to strategically lie and omit certain details when discussing very basic topics with my mother because she's permanently one second away from smashing somebody's window. Anything I do will be swiftly followed by an interrogation and judgement if I don't remember every minute detail on the spot, which obviously happens every time because I actually have a job to think about and won't be retiring at 58 like she did. She will expect answers to questions she hasn't actually asked about topics I know nothing about. To be honest I've had to be this way around her for most of my life. And she wonders why people are so antsy around her, and why I often just don't speak when she's going on one of her tirades about how hard her life is in her fully paid for house that's doubled in value since she bought it. If these are the biggest challenges in your life at the moment, you're living the fucking dream. Although of course if I was to even imply this I would become literal Satan. I just found out something about a pretty insignificant financial matter - which involves my money on her behalf anyway, not hers - that she's been literally crying about since February and I now can't tell her about it until later this week because of the context surrounding it. This isn't how normal people live. I will never be normal. But hey, you can save if you stay at home lads! No long-term psychological consequences here!