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[quote=Anonymous]No therapist recommendation but I would recommend, if you haven’t already, reading some books on this dynamic. There are many out there but a couple I can think of off the top of my head are: Children of Emotionally Immature Parents & Healing the Mother Wound.

My mother is similar and asked me to go to therapy with her. I declined as our pattern of communication showed me that she was not in the least able to demonstrate any empathy, curiosity, or active listening. I felt she wanted to go to therapy to prove her points and have a third party tell us both she is right and I’m wrong. I was not interested in this chicken dance she has been playing with me where I am the one to blame for any bad feeling she has. I’m 40 now and don’t need the emotional turmoil in my life. I think it would be helpful to journal about what kind of imagined relationship you think might be achievable through therapy, and then to ask yourself if there is really hope for this. If you think there is then at least you go in knowing what it is you are hoping for which will help you understand whether it is helping or not.[/quote]

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