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[quote=Anonymous][[b]quote=Anonymous]"Mom, Dad, why are you complaining to the relatives about us?  We do the best we can to see you often, and it hurts to get calls telling us all the bad things you say about us behind our backs."
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"Aunt/cousin/uncle, oh for crying out loud!  We're over there all the time.  Why don't you go visit them instead of calling to guilt trip me? I'm not going to listen to you talk about this any more."

And any other time some relative tries to guilt trip you, shut it down.[/quote]

OP here. I've tried this one. My mother gets hyper sensitive and will actually yell at me something like "Don't you dare try to tell me what I can and cannot say. I'm old and I will say whatever I want. Do you think it's easy keeping your dad happy? You know he's going senile right?"

My dad is definitely showing signs of fading and my mother feels like she has to do certain things for him in case this will be his last year, but it fills her with resentment. She complains constantly. We offer to give her a break and that offends her. Don't even dare mention a support group unless you want her to rip you a new one.

I think she has always been difficult, but not at this level. She could contain it more and she didn't take out her frustrations on me as often. My dad used to be difficult, but has probably gotten more pleasant with age.[/quote]

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