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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm usually pretty good at just being genuinely happy for my friends and not allowing myself to wallow in envy or jealousy, but I absolutely am green with envy over friends who have kind parents aging well who are still kind and loving and who have wonderful siblings. I am the verbal punching bag for my aging mother and every thing has been a living hell from trying to get her evaluated for dementia to praying she doesn't go off meds AGAIN and any interactions are miserable. I have a truly disturbed sibling who feeds her fire and lives a life of chaos and drama and I am the bad one for not getting sucked into all the ways she tries to make her ex husband's life hell or her latest friendship or work explosion.

So I distract myself. Life is very busy and I allow myself my feelings. I count my blessings and I get immerse in my every day life.[/quote]

I could have written this. An acquaintance lost her loving kind mother after a short illness. I have a cruel mother with dementia who has lost her filter and she will probably live another ten years, saying horrid things the whole time.[/quote]

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