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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your parents are able bodied and cognitively sound adults so it's not your place to protect them from their own daughter against their will. All you can do is protect yourself and have your own boundaries.

My mother is protective of my Golden child, drama queen unemployed sister and gives her lots of financial gifts and enables galore. If I create any boundaries my mother intervenes (we are middle age, my sister is older than I am) so I cannot be with them together and I don't let my mother attempt to suck me into any of my sister's dramas. Sadly, it has created a lot of distance with my mother who is angry I won't play along, but I have my own family and have no time for enabling drama and chaos.[/quote]

Thanks, PP.  Yes, this is where I realize I should be.  My initial reaction is to attempt to protect but you are right that I just need to create my own boundaries and not be with them together.  It is sad and will take me a while to accept that I won’t have the relationship with my parents that I would like, but I can only control so much.  Thank you for the non-judgmental response.  [/quote]

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