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[quote=Anonymous]OP you are not alone -- but I do have to say that in my case, at least, my mother is incredibly sweet, kind, and caring to everyone except me and my father (and sometimes my brother and SIL). Most people who meet her can't say enough sweet things about her, and they therefore reinforce her sense of victimization in that although I call her daily, I see her rarely because the visits are sheer hell. So, the guilt I feel gets layered by her comments about how everyone else thinks it's awful that I never come 'home,' etc.,. In other words, the OP may well have a situation in which her guilt gets worse because she sees/has a mother that no one else sees....and she may feel very alone in trying to tell herself that it's okay to distance since others are able to be around her mother without being viciously savaged emotionally. [/quote]
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