I think Eminem and Lil Wayne summarized this best. OP, you can only lead the horse to water, you can't make it drink. All you can do is express that you love her. You can't make her believe it. And if she doesn't, then that's her loss.

I bet that slap felt pretty warm..Tough luck OP..maybe just give your mom some space and time to cool off next time..

why feel bad? op can't help girls want to hit on them

#30 cool off about what? In the FML I'm never stated that OP and her mom were fighting! Maybe OP just wanted to say "I love you" because maybe she doesn't say it enough, I would do the same thing if I don't say it enough

76, it says his mom was in a bad mood. So 30 probably meant cool off from the bad mood.

What if it was a spur of the moment slap? Maybe the mom was overwhlemed with emotions and thoughts at that time.

14, that's not an excuse for the mother to hit OP... overwhelmed with emotions or not, you can't hit someone just because you're upset.

tough love

aka abuse. i can see how you'd get confused though. abuse is in nowadays

37 - What the **** are you talking about?

a mother hitting her child is "tough love" as dude above me said

yes if its a punishment. This was clearly not. This was abuse. OP tried to nake her feel better and she struck out, litteraly.

Maybe the author is an ass to his mom a lot and or disrespects her alot and she was sick of his shit and she thought we was messing her so she slapped him

*insert Nicolas Cage face here*

*insert Eli manning face*

just almost...?

Someone*

No. My first impulse when someone I love does something that irritates me is not to assault them, but that's just me.

"payback" in the form of child abuse? doesnt matter how stressed you are, angry you get, nor the circumstance. control yo damn self. ******* pathetic. lots of women want children, but cannot conceive. she can and treats her child like that. shame

Who says she's a child ? And to each their own. I don't agree with hitting but chances are if you're a smart as your whole life someone is bound to smack you . Once again not saying she deserves it but it is what it is.... I know I've been smacked and deserved it.

#60, would it be ok if she wasn't a child?

Did you read my post? Not saying it's right. Just making an observation. If you're always a sarcastic asshole , then people tend to believe you're always like this and won't take compassion without feeling like it's sarcasm. Anyhow lost cause here . Down votes show the opinions. Still going to speak my mind.