Every christmas and new year I'd get some cash to spend on gifts for myself, but she'd always tell me 'Don't spend it' when it was my dad's money and not hers. When I turned 18, my mom shared with me how her relationship with my dad hasn't felt like one in ages (which to me nowadays I can only explain as 'Staying with your 'significant' other just because of the kids') and when I was 20 I caught her stealing from me in December, it hurt more because it was like.20'ish days before christmas.
