My Mom is stubborn about her AC
My poor mother, if she didn’t suffer in silence she wouldn’t know what to do with herself.
I used to feel bad about it, but then I realized she is one of those people that needs you to feel bad for her.
She makes certain choices to endure quiet hardships, only so later on she can say “oh, that’s okay I don’t want to be any trouble.” It can be a little infuriating, since my natural feeling is to help my mom and make her feel better, but she doesn’t really want to feel better. Recently I found out that her air conditioning broke down at some point in the recent past. Since the COVID pandemic started I haven’t been over to see her very much, so the AC might have broken down any time in the last two months. She never mentioned it to me, even though I am professional HVAC technician, and the man that installed her system for her. Me fixing her air conditioning should have been the easiest thing in the world to ask me for, but she “didn’t want to be any trouble.” I decided I was done feeding her passive aggression, so I told her that if she ever wanted to get her AC working again she could ask. I was not going to volunteer, I was not just going to show up and do it, she needed to ask me to come over and fix her HVAC system for her. If she wants cooling again, she will have to simply ask for my help.