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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I could have written your post. My mom is like this too. I was able to cut back our calls to once a week because I started to find that talking to her was causing me a lot of stress. I hardly come away from a conversation with her feeling good about life. She and my father are retired, they do nothing, have no interests, find every excuse not to travel based on what's going on in the news, they do not participate in any volunteer activities or charities.... talking with her has become a bore because if it isn't about what my DC needs or should be doing or what I should be doing as his parent, it's about the news or her wonderful special furniture. We literally have nothing to talk about. I can't imagine what the future will be if she doesn't take on some other purpose than being a grandmother.

I'd recommend you cut down on the length of your calls with her as well. The best thing that happened with a recent call with my mother was that the phone didn't have enough power to begin with a died about 10 minutes later when the conversation started to become too much for me. Give yourself a limit and remind yourself of all the other things YOU need to do and WANT to do. Awful conversations can take up waaaay too much time in one's life. [/quote]

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