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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Setting boundaries and keeping my expectations extremely low. Also, not sharing any personal information. We just talk about the TV shows they watch.

That’s actually working fairly well.

Sometimes my mother asks for information and I do feel awkward not really answering her, but [b]when I do, she turns it around and inside out, so I’m learning not to fall for it.[/b][/quote]

This. OMG, yes.

Also my mom has become kind of a shut-in who reads FB all day, and the only thing she actively wants to talk about is politics. So it’s like we either have a real conversation which I know will get twisted, or I have to hear about Elise Stefanik and Jim Jordan nonstop.

Not gonna lie, sometimes I take a low-dose edible before I see her, bc it is the only way I have found to take the edge off. I barely even drink but here I am, in midlife, turning to edibles.

(Yes, I know this is a sign of dysfunction, and that this will probably get flagged. But it is the truth of where I am in this situation.)[/quote]

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