Birthday let down

Anne so glad you had a lovely day - and another one to come!

Enjoy being special, Anne. I love being taken out by either of my sons.

Have lovely a Birthday Everybody seems to have been catered for and had a great time together and its nice to go to lunch with your husband You dash here and there and your daughter should realise you must have a special meal together more so with him being away. Perhaps because she has you alone when her Dad's away she just does not think .Do little things for your self on your special special day cossett your self ie eat what you like and enjoy the garden

Thank you all for my birthday. Darling daughter took me out for lunch with my grandsons. I forgot to mention my daughter suffers from bipolar but she still enjoys upsetting me. So I did have a lovely day but tomorrow my sons are taking me for some lunch. I could get used to this. So I thank you all for your messages you really cheered me up and I know I can rely on you and I would support you as well. Anne09 xx

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Hope you Birthday is going happily and well, Anne09 [cake]

Happy Birthday Hope you had a peaceful and private celebration!

Happy birthday! Hope things were OK and daughter was not thoughtless!

Belated Happy Birthday greetings Grannyknot.I seem to be following you round the forums this afternoon. I would rather have been following you around the Hebrides !

I was away with my husband for my birthday earlier this month so my son met me 2 days before the day and gave me my pressie and my daughter said "See you when you get back, love you lots". I am surrogate mother to a whole host of young adults apart from my own two, extended family, nieces and nephews etc and I told them all, "I'm off on holiday, save your dramas for when I get back!" Strangely enough, they managed without me for 2 weeks!

I hope you had a nice day, happy birthday

Anne09 Have lovely birthday and think about yourself! Don't tell your DD what you are doing. you are not being selfish.

So many Mums martyr themselves (self included) because we don't want to hurt/upset/inconvenience our offspring. Goes with the territory, but with the support of friends who truly understand , sometimes you have to take a deep breath and say No, me first. Not easy (I know, I'm rubbish at it, but at least I recognise the principle)
Happy Birthday and maybe a or two!

Anne have a Happy Birthday to-day and treat yourself do something you wouldn't normally do and enjoy. [cake] & more

Hi Anne

Please don't be too hard on yourself. It sounds like you have fallen into a way of life which you are now finding a bit too much. Perhaps you can make a plan to change things slightly, a lunch with a friend, perhaps join a walking group, whatever takes your fancy. Happy Birthday.

Happy birthday. Think only of your own wishes for once.

Happy birthday!

Happy Birthday Anne

Anne Have a lovely birthday with your husband

It's your life!

Happy birthday Anne - have lovely day.

Happy Birthday Anne. Cheers!

Anne Happy Birthday for tomorrow, but dont let her grind you down, enjoy your day

How old is your daughter? I think one of the first things we have to learn as adults is that our parents have their own lives. In years to come I bet she'd be appalled if you expected to be included in everything she was doing. You say it's her way or no way, but it needs to be the family's way and she fits in with that. Sounds so easy doesn't it Good luck and have a lovely birthday

Have a happy birthday. Why do our adult children find it so hard to think that we might have emotional lives of our own as a couple? - we are past it apparently. Don't let it get you down.

Tell her to get over it. You and your DH are entitled to have a lunch on your own. Does she take you everwhere she goes ?

Happy Birthday.

"her way or no way" I've got one like that.