It is screamingly obvious to everyone who knows and loves her that the trouble lies with my mother and not, as she would have it, with the parade of horrible bosses fate has saddled her with.
My mother's inability to hold a job is due to her own flaws. 
mnli hypothesis: My mother's inability to hold a job is due to her own flaws.  premise: It is screamingly obvious to everyone who knows and loves her that the trouble lies with my mother and not, as she would have it, with the parade of horrible bosses fate has saddled her with.