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My mother is like this. I had it out with her in my late 20s, early 30s. It coincided with additional nasty comments on my parenting. It woke me up, I have to say, because it's one thing to criticize me or my spouse, but another to go after my kids.

So I cut off contact with them for 6 months, and they learned what I'm ready to do if they don't behave. For years now, it's been going so much better!

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My father hated me. Very abusive physically and mentally and I was referred to as fat dumb and lazy since a young age. Mother was abused and helpless. She was an addict as well. Left to go to college on athletic scholarship at 18 and entirely on my own since then. . Did well at a highly competitive school, and even better in graduate school. In some sense it was easy for me to ignore the endless stream of insults because my parents had so many deficiencies I never took them seriously
But no matter what the voice in your head has to control. My father died two years ago and I hadn't heard from him in decades. Emotional separation from parents is hard, even with my parents, but is worth the work. [/quote]

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