>>6361186>That's disappointing to hear. I was kind of hoping that was "normal" somehow.The not getting toys outside of birthdays or Christmas IS normal. That was my experience. Very rarely did I get a toy outside of those two times. Even when my parents had the money to blow they didn't buy me or my brothers toys and shit outside of special occasions. They would just save it up for Christmas. Like one year, just before GI Joe died in the 90's, my parents got me a shit load of Joes for Christmas including that giant Battle Corps space mech that could roll along the floor, which was better than my parents buying me one or two toys multiple times a year.
But my parents wouldn't then go spend a shit load of money on one of my cousins and then when my brothers or I had a birthday would they then not even care.
But people change, honestly. It's likely your mom thinks back about that kind of thing, or will think back about that kind of thing, and regret it. I saw it with my grandmother and my own mother. My grandmother disowned my mother as a teenager over doing stupid teenager shit her older sisters did too (who also treated my mom like shit her entire life), but at that point my grandmother was working overseas a lot and didn't want to deal with it. So fast forward about thirty+ years and my mom and our family are the only ones around to take care of her as Alzheimers sets in and her two older daughters are nowhere to be found.
