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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]After my parents divorced my mom alienated me from my dad. I spent my childhood believing her stories and thinking dad was a bad guy until I was a teenager and I realized the dad was a good guy. Once I was an adult I moved away from my mom and focused on making up to my dad for the last time that my mom took me from him. As a result my mother and I are not close in adulthood as her alienation came back to haunt her when I was an adult and figured out what was going on. I still see her on occasion because I wanted to stay close to her extended family. However I don’t do things alone with her and I just see her at family events like weddings and funerals. I’m sure I’ll send her a text on Mother’s Day but I will not visit her whereas Father’s Day I spend with my dad.

Parental alienation is child abuse. Therefore, my mother committed child abuse.  
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What do you mean she took you from him? You can’t keep a child from a parent who wants to parent. People in your situation often wrong from one extreme to the other. I wouldn’t let your dad off the hook so easily—kids and adults always idealize the person who isn’t or wasn’t around and there’s a reason she left him if she did. The person who was there day to day deserves some credit for raising you especially if they did so mostly alone. You’re oversimplifying.[/quote]

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