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[quote=Anonymous]My mother is a narcissistic MAGA conspiracy theorist family member who likes to weaponize religion and her money my dead dad left her against me. She will blame me for anything she can. It's to the point where I can't stand to be around her because out of nowhere, she will attack me or my ex-husband as being the fault of whatever negative feel she has in her life even when she's on vacation and far from us and even though my ex left the family five years ago. She'll check in to say hi and tell some awful story she was just thinking of from the past or turn a question about the exact time to meet up at some place to say that she can't do the event because of some new plan that was never discussed before that is just made up.  Lots of fear and manipulation and avoidance to feel more special and victimized. Is there a therapist in the DC area that deals with mother daughter relationships and narcissism? The last thing I want is more time spent with her to cause problems and her manipulating the therapy session. I'm happy to go to counseling if the hate can dissipate. I'm also happy to support her as she gets older even if she's also not improving but want to do it at a distance if this behavior is going to increase or figure out some better skills to let it happen and move on from it positively.

Please let me know if you know of any NOVA family therapists (ideally located from beltway to Loudoun/Fairfax line or online) that work on learning how to be a decent person in the present, listen to others point of view without attacking, and teach conflict resolution skills for mothers and daughters. Non-Christian. We are both Christian but she will turn it into a competition over who is the best at Christianity. Do I look at family therapy or couple therapy? I'm a bit confused what to look for. Family therapy seems to be parents about children and couples about couples. What do you do when you have a different relationship? She suggested this so I'm trying to find someone that might take us. Thank you.[/quote]

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