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[quote=Anonymous]It’s your mom not being able to sit with your distress without taking it on. You know she can’t handle it too - it’s why you don’t want to talk about it with her. Because she can’t fix it, it becomes her distress. It takes a lot of self awareness & self control to sit with someone in distress and she just can’t. It doesn’t make her a bad person. My mom is the same and I didn’t understand it until I became a mother. The best advice I received about tending to someone in pain is “be a tree”. Quiet, shady, supportive, strong. Hoping you have others in your life who can be a tree for you. [/quote]
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