I Quit Bankrolling My Family

Summary

Mom always said she loved my younger brother Derek and me equally, but she had selective hearing.

I've been gluten intolerant since I was little. I told her over and over not to make sandwiches, but she never listened. At every meal, she made Derek's favorite sandwiches.

When Derek and I both came down with fevers, she couldn't hear me mumbling deliriously through a high fever, but the second he whimpered, she stayed at his bedside all night.

When we were both living away from home, she turned a blind eye to me pinching pennies in a cramped apartment.