Nicole

Hey, Dr. John, how are you?

I'm blessed and highly favored.

Well, I am gearing up for a cross-country move, and I will go from being 1,800 miles away from my mother to about 20 minutes away from my mother.

No, it's wonderful.

I'm so excited.

My mother is my favorite person in the world behind my husband and my children.

Very cool.

However...

When I am with her in person, I am very short with her and I can be very unkind.

And whereas I call it out and I apologize, that's when it's in five-day increments.

I don't want to be like that when I'm with her all the time.

Part of this cross-country move is my husband's going to be away from us for six months.

We're going to be depending on her.

My kids are so excited to be with her.

And I don't want to be a jerk.

So I was calling to see if you could help me figure out why I do this or how to not be like that when I'm with her.

I don't.

I was thinking about this a lot last night.

And the things that...

come to mind are maybe i'm expecting her to read my mind a little bit and kind of know what i'm expecting or or maybe if i have to repeat something more than once i'm like you're my mom you should just get up and do it i don't understand how old is she she's 70. can i tell you something that a great mentor of mine he's a close friend but um