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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Give her the silent treatment. My mom used to be difficult until one day while she was at work we packed everything and moved from VA to Minnesota without telling anyone except my husband's family (he grew up there). We didn't speak to her for 6 months. When I came back for a visit, she hugged me and apologized, and has never been the same, because she knows I can, and will, leave. She's already lost my brother. She doesn't want to lose me. Yes, it was cruel, but sometimes you have to play hardball to get your point across. She made the mistake when she raised me to never need anyone. She didn't realize that could mean her. [/quote]

Horrible way to live for everyone involved. You think you're being tough, but you're not. You're extremely vulnerable because you have absolutely no coping skills other than to create an emotional wall, which anyone can blow down with a little poof. But you don't realize it.[/quote]

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Actually no, the first PP was absolutely right to do this. I've had to go similarly nuclear with my mother, not for silent treatments, but other egregious acts.

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