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[quote=Anonymous]I went to help my mom with her health issues and it drove me bonkers because she was so demanding and abrasive. It also grieved me to see what she was going through, and I also grieved for losing the strong mother that I had.

Once she recovered, I do not have the bandwidth to engage with her and my heart hurts because of my pettiness. I just don't have it in me to engage.  Thankfully, I did not have any confrontation with her.  I understand that she is human. It will take some time but I am faking it till I make it with her.

This realization that she is not the same has allowed me to reassess what my new relationship with her be like. I do have to manage her anxiety and now all my siblings do not tell her any bad news. We have her out of the loop.

Here is an interesting thing though. My kids are in college and very often I have the same anxiety about them as my mom has about us. I fear gun violence, drug overdose, hazing death, some kind of new virus...I feel I can easily turn into her or I am turning into her. [/quote]

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