I think I am on to a solution.

[Metalhead]

It has been a week since I last spoke to my mother. She has not chased me down yet. I have sent her a couple of grey rocking texts and I do not think she is on to me slowly and gradually slipping away into my own life.

 

[Judge]

Sounds like a plan. A "strategic withdrawal".

 

[Shamar]

It has been a week since I last spoke to my mother. She has not chased me down yet. I have sent her a couple of grey rocking texts and I do not think she is on to me slowly and gradually slipping away into my own life.

Good plan. Withdraw while creating the illusion of not withdrawing. I like it.

 

[Kalinychta]

It has been a week since I last spoke to my mother. She has not chased me down yet. I have sent her a couple of grey rocking texts and I do not think she is on to me slowly and gradually slipping away into my own life.

Stop with the grey rocking texts. I don’t know what those are, but don’t send her any more. Cut her the hell out of your life completely. Block her. No more texts, no more e-mails. If you’re apprehensive about her being “onto you slowly and gradually slipping away into your own life,” that means you’re not slipping away into your own life, neither slowly nor gradually, nor sneakily, nor cleverly-under-her-notice, nor at all. Seriously, you’re trying to sneak away and hope she doesn’t notice?

Either cut her out and seize your liberty or stay a prisoner. You can’t do both.

 

[oregano]

File a restraining order. It's time for you to stand up to this rhymes-with-witch once and for all. She always seems to find you, she is a stalker and a psychopath. Such people only understand the fist. You have to have a uniformed cop serve her with a permanent restraining order. She has to know you mean business.

 

[Jumpinbare]

I had to look up grey rocking. Wow. I have done hat with a couple of people without even knowing it was a thing.

 

[Nervous Rex]

I love the grey rock approach. I don't think I'm very good at it ... yet, but I really like the idea.

 

[tree]

Grey rock method: What it is and how to use it effectively

Spoiler: simple gray rock chart

The Gray Rock Method | Self-Love Rainbow

What is the Grey Rock Method?

 

[Metalhead]

I spent a weekend mostly to myself, watching movies, taking long walks, cooking healthy meals, not being attached to my phone. It was amazing.

 

[Shamar]

I spent a weekend mostly to myself, watching movies, taking long walks, cooking healthy meals, not being attached to my phone. It was amazing.

I don't have a cell phone (only a land line). When people ask for my cell number, I reply "I'm one of those perverted freaks without a cell phone." When they ask how I can function without a cell phone , I tell them "Very peacefully and without stress." Sometimes they say that is weird, but it doesn't make me a perverted freak, I say "I also like bagpipe music." One time somebody responded "I think that may cross the line."