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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]She clearly does not understand appropriate boundaries.  I honestly might not begrudge her looking through them, but sending them to other people sounds like "mean girl" crap that you shouldn't have to deal with from your mother.  She sounds awful - I'm sorry, op. [/quote]

This. Agree. Your mom has boundary issues. She might be a toxic personality. Carolyn Hax the columnist has some book on boundaries that she recommends. That might help you learn to protect yourself from your mom.

My mom has done many similar things to me.

When I was a kid, she read my diary. Then laughed about it and talked about it with friends.
When I was a teen, she intercepted my phone calls and had long conversations with the person who was trying to talk to me.
When I was a young adult, she accused me of something pretty serious (stealing from her home) and then when she realized it was her own mistake, would not admit that she accused me in the first place
Most recently, she told friends and relatives the extremely private reason that I was getting a divorce, but twisted it in a way to make it more salacious.

It's all really hurtful, but even more so when she won't admit responsibility for any of it at all.

I now keep her at arms length so she can never hurt me again.

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