To start your week!
Why Jewish Daughters Need Psychotherapy
Jewish Mother: “Hello?”
Daughter: “Hi Mom. Can I leave the kids with you tonight?”
Jewish Mother: “You’re going out?”
Daughter: “Yes.”
Jewish Mother: “With whom?”
Daughter: “With a friend.”
Jewish Mother: “I don’t know why you left your husband. He is such a good man.”
Daughter: “I didn’t leave him. He left me.”
Jewish Mother: “You let him leave you, and now you go out with anybodies and nobodies.”
Daughter: “I do not go out with anybody. Can I bring over the kids? ”
Jewish Mother: “I never left you to go out with anybody except your father.”
Daughter: “There are lots of things that you did, and I don’t.”
Jewish Mother: “What are you hinting at?”
Daughter: “Nothing, I just want to know if I can bring the kids over tonight.”
Jewish Mother: “You’re going to stay the night with him? What will your husband say if he finds out?”
Daughter: “My EX husband. I don’t think he would be bothered. From the day he left me, he probably never slept alone!”
Jewish Mother: “So you’re going to sleep over at this loser’s place?”
Daughter: “He’s not a loser.”
Jewish Mother: “A man who goes out with a divorced woman with children is a loser and a parasite.”
Daughter: “I don’t want to argue. Should I bring over the kids or not?”
Jewish Mother: “Poor children with such a mother.”
Daughter: “Such a what?”
Jewish Mother: “With no stability. No wonder your husband left you.”
Daughter: “ENOUGH!!!”
Jewish Mother “Don’t scream at me. You probably scream at this loser too!”
Daughter: “Now you’re worried about the loser?”
Jewish Mother: “Ah, so you see he IS a loser. I spotted him immediately.”
Daughter: “Goodbye, mother.”
Jewish Mother: “Wait! Don’t hang up! When are you bringing them over?”
Daughter: “I’m not bringing them over! I’m not going out!”
Jewish Mother: “If you never go out, how do expect to meet anyone?
Is it actually humor? I dunno…
With some Moms you can NEVER win. I was lucky – my Mom was awesome. RIP Mom.
“Born to Kvetch”
https://www.amazon.com/Born-Kvetch-Yiddish-Language-Culture/dp/0312307411
The Yiddish language had 1000 years to develop among a people in exile and often in persecution, and whose religion teaches that their Messiah has not yet come – so no matter what good things may happen, fundamentally the Universe remains unsatisfied and incomplete. It is thus perfectly honed to complain and to find fault in anything at any time, as the author writes, “because exile without complaint is just *tourism.* “
Circular arguing.
jrg- Yep!
Cranston- Ouch…LOL
Ed- Always!
I’ve 3 Jewish female friends SWEAR they’ve had this very conversation with their mothers. And the one who got re-married … TO A CATHOLIC … well, that was an “entertaining” reception.
Stretch- Ouch!!!