things I talked about on the phone with my mum

• what I did for Thanksgiving
• her plans for the weekend
• complaints about my brother's Spanish mobile phone
• how to solve grade 10 maths problems for one of the students she's tutoring (she works on helping students cope with learning disabilities, not so much on content, and usually the kids are younger)
• how much my little brother is working
• her friend's theory about how children don't ever actually want their parents in their lives and only have anything to do with them out of guilt and feelings of responsibility
• whether or not that was the case with my brothers and I
• why her marriage broke up
• whether or not she should just become a hermit
• weekend plans again
• C'landian politics
• this great book she's reading about how women just want to be loved and men just want to be respected (and it's clearly universally true, because in the bible men are supposed to love their wives and women obey their husbands (and there was no patriarchy in biblical times...))

I wanted to interrupt some of her negative thinking and tell her some of the stuff they say in group therapy, but I stopped myself because I don't like talking about it. Now I wish I'd said it anyway. Although, I'm sure she's heard/read it before.

I almost told an anecdote about something in group therapy at dinner today, but then I realised where it came from. I also had to stop myself from contradicting my housemate when he said that our health insurance limits us to 6 mental health visits a year. I'm less regretful there, but maybe I shouldn't be so secretive.