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[quote=Anonymous]I don’t even know where to start.  My mother was emotionally and physically abusive (think beatings with ping pong paddle). Narcissistic. Selfish. Compulsive shopper and hoarder.  More interested In Appearances and what other people thought than what I thought. Punitive over minor mistakes.  Always hated my friends.  Anti-Semitic and wildly racist. Controlling. 
The happiest day of my life was when they dropped me off at college. Never lived at home again.
Now she has Alzheimer’s.  I just feel nothing. Emptiness. I do my “duty” as a daughter, call and send birthday and Xmas gifts etc.
Sadly my father was blind to all this. He used to wonder out loud why we couldn’t get along. It’s too late now to confront him as to why he didn’t protect me from her..probably because he knew she would turn on him as well.  He puts up with her pinching and slapping at him even now. 
I wish I had had a normal mother but that wasn’t the hand I was dealt. I have been in therapy for years.  Hardest time of year? Mother’s Day.  I cannot and will not buy a sappy card.  I buy a blank one and write happy mother’s day.  That’s it m[/quote]

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