My mom didn’t show up to my birthday party yesterday. Do I have every right to be hurt about this? [I Need Advice]

I texted my my mom last week to remind her that it’s my 18th birthday which was on the 15th. I mean I shouldn’t have to tell her because she’s the one that gave birth to me. And guess why she did not respond until The next day. She didn’t even say happy birthday to me at all and then I asked her if she was still going to come to my birthday party and she said that she might have to work. Frankly she always makes excuses. Like whenever I invite her to something she always has the excuse that she has to work or something came up.
So yesterday was my birthday party. I’ve been looking for my mom to see if she’s going to come. I mean she said she’ll try but she never showed up. So my dad and my half brother and sister and my aunt (that’s been a mother to me) had to sit me down and bluntly explain to me one more time that my mom is not interested in my life and I’m an 18-year-old woman now and I’m too old to be crying for my mommy. This is my mom‘s fault for abandoning us 10 years ago and she never calls or anything so why bother inviting her in the first place and plus she probably can’t handle all of us calling her out for leaving us. My sister said it was my day and don’t let that loser ruin it and just have fun and move on. My dad‘s girlfriend told me bluntly that I need to take care of my own goddamn self. I’m an 18-year-old woman now and I need to start making myself happy instead of chasing after the woman that doesn’t want me. Forget her!
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DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

At 17 I was forced to leave mom and live with my half brother. Her fault really. It hurt. I didn't hear from her again until I graduated high school. No gifts. Just a hug in a picture.

I almost immediately went into the Air Force. I called her a few times and even wrote. No calls back, no gifts, I knew she couldn't write.

Came back home to visit after basic. No one picked me up. So I walked to my father's place. There my father's apartment manager let me use his phone to call my half brother. Dad was at work.

On the phone my brother said pretty much the same thing. Time to grow up.

That was the start of my distancing from my family! Oh I took care of both a few decades later. Yet everyone had distanced themselves from me.

One of the things she said to me a few months before she passed away deeply hurt.

"No woman will ever love you".

Yet now, with no grudges towards her, I wonder who was the reason for that?

Abuse begets even more abuse. 😢

LaylaTheTallGirl · 18-21, F

@DeWayfarer Wow that is so heartbreaking. I’m sorry

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@LaylaTheTallGirl Learn from it if you should ever consider having kids! Don't put them through your own circumstances now!

I never had any, so I don't have to think about it.

LaylaTheTallGirl · 18-21, F

@DeWayfarer Misteran 18 years old I don’t even want kids. I don’t even know if I don’t want any because I don’t wanna end up like my mother.

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@LaylaTheTallGirl just saying! "If you should 'ever' consider it".

LaylaTheTallGirl · 18-21, F

@DeWayfarer OK OK you don’t have to yell at me. Everyone of my family seem to drop her number and just forget her and MoveOn and I’m a grown woman that doesn’t need to be crying about wanting my mommy. I really need her and she keeps rejecting me. My best friends were like why do you even consider a woman doesn’t even want you at all? That really hurt my feelings. My Guy best friend said that they’re not trying to sound like they’re being mean because it’s the truth and I don’t want to hear the truth.

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@LaylaTheTallGirl do you really think it will ever change?

Not saying to drop the numbers. Just don't expect a single darn thing. I did take care of both decades later. And they both did raise me as heartless as it was.

LaylaTheTallGirl · 18-21, F

@DeWayfarer OK I guess I see what you’re saying. My dad said that I prove to them that I didn’t need my mother at all and there’s stuff I can do on my own but I’m still learning.