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[quote=Anonymous]My mom was super enmeshed with me and my sisters, but also constantly triangulated the three of us so it was always her using one of us to trash the other two. Our parents were divorced and neither mom nor dad ever wanted all of us at one time, then we were all sent to different boarding schools at 14. I never grew close with my sisters as a result.

In the 90s she decided she was going to be a Beanie Babies mogul selling them on eBay, then got super upset when she went on vacation and I was apparently supposed to monitor her account and end an auction. I didn't and her account got suspended and forever after that I was the one who was blamed for her being left with 2000 Beanie Babies or something. (She could have sold them all! If only I had done what she'd asked!)

I find myself being very hands off with my own adult kids as a result and they actually do seem to wonder why I don't call them 12 times a day like my mom used to.

I just congratulate myself that they're all productive human adults but I am always terrified of alienating them in the same way getting into their business etc. [/quote]

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