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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What you are describing is very normal. Illness, old age, loneliness, tiredness can make elderly people abusive and angry. [/quote]

Thank you. Yes, it is and yet some people don't think about how many years of this some of us go through. And they feel the need to say "It's so sad you don't visit much anymore. Your mom won't be around forever." I have spent years being in physical pain and feeling tormented and getting therapy to try to deal with the biting nastiness. I finally got my sanity back stepping backward more and more. I think some people don't realize it is not their place to try to push someone back into an abusive cycle even if it is exacerbated by an aging mind. "She won't be around forever" is the wrong to say to someone who has spent many years dealing with horrid deteriorating behavior. It certainly seems like forever. So you step back and get your joy in life back and your optimism and the parent is with people where the better sides can come out. Some people just cannot accept the safest option is to be apart.[/quote]

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