Is AUTHOR wrong in the post ? POST : I'm 30. My WHOLE life my mother has acted like she has the worst kids on the planet. Nothing is ever good enough, nothing is ever praised, nothing I ever accomplished was looked at with anything other than indifference. If I ever asked for help financially it was always met with long lectures about how stupid I am and then it would be held over my head for months and snide underhanded comments would be made like "Well we cant go to the movies because (me) cant handle their finances." 

There is SO MUCH MORE crap to add to this but... due to cut hours and loss of business my check these last few weeks have been less than I am used to. I missed a bill and my power got shut off. I get paid this Saturday and I'll get it paid and the lights back on.. I just have to make due for a few nights. 

My mother found out and offered to pay my electric bill. I refused because its easier on me to just live in the dark than deal with her emotional abuse. Anyways, she argued with me about it and demanded to know why I wouldn't accept her help. I broke down and told her, she makes me feel like a piece of shit and I'm tired of feeling like that. I'm tired of her acting like shes never had hard times herself and that I didn't want to deal with her BS about me sucking and the jokes about me needing help. 

Her responses were that she was sorry, ok, and goodnight.

Now I feel like garbage for possibly hurting her feelings... am I the asshole?