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Why? Everyone asks like I'm crazy for not wanting to have anything to do with my mother and I just feel like people with "normal" mothers will never understand. Does it make you upset when people badger you about it?

My mother has bipolar and borderline personality disorder. She ruined my childhood, teen and young adult years. I was afraid of her. She said horrible things to me and was emotionally abusive. I have so much anger toward her that was repressed for so long that it's bit even worth it to me to tell her why. I have my own children now and last year I decided to completely cut her off.

I hear the same things all the time: " how can you not speak to your mom at all?", "don't you feel sad that she's not in your life?" " no matter what she did, she is still your mother." " she deserves to know her grandchildren" etc etc...

Does anyone else get this when they tell people that you don't have a relationship?[/quote]

Same situation for me, but I cut her off seven years ago. No one has badgered me. If a conversation comes up that involves my mother, I shut it down by saying, "I don't have a relationship with her, she's severely mentally ill." The response is generally, "I'm sorry." [/quote]

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