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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
What would you do?

Would the answer be different if I added that she's undergoing chemo?[/quote]

A) sounds like she had a krappy husband and life partner. 
B) sounds like normal stuff to complain your son isn't calling you enough. Have them set up a call every other week and stick to it. BFD. 
C) generally sounds like she needs more female friends, of her own age. Find some social outlets for this. Everyone needs a few. [/quote]

OP here.

A) no she didn't! That's what's so heinous about what she did. My dad was a decent husband with normal flaws. He was good to her. And he never, ever complained about her behind her back (and God knows he had plenty to complain about). She's a controlling perfectionist martyr and she liked to chew out anyone who doesn't do things up to her standards. So she does everything herself and then complain bitterly about my dad, who she'd pushed aside. Growing up I used to side with her, then I realized how a lot of her complaints were self-imposed and she really did a disservice to him and to our perception of him. It's about one of the worst parenting sins, bad mouthing one parent to the kids and turn them against that parent. Only after he passed did she express regrets and say how it's all really petty stuff that she blew out of proportion.

I just hate how she did that to me.[/quote]

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