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[quote=Anonymous]Hey OP - I hear you and feel you, too! I'm at a good place with my mom at this moment (maybe over a month??) - but I never know how long it will last, what will trip her into a mean, nasty, bitter old lady. She has hurled horrible insults at me, sneered and said nasty things to me, the whole works. I didn't realize until the last 10 years or so that what she has been dishing out to me since my childhood is classic emotional abuse. She is pushing 90 and the only saving grace is she is getting forgetful and a little more pleasant to be around.

I feel guilty writing something bad about her considering how nice to me she has been lately.

Anyway, I have vented to friends over the years, only for them to look at me, horrified, not believing a word I say. 
That I must be exaggerating. And they look at me with a little less friendship in their heart.

I don't know if I have any advice for you other than find a way to love yourself a little more. Compartmentalize your feelings for her. It's all about her and not about you. 
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