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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. It also [b]doesn't help that my best friend and her mom (who is my mom's good friend)[/b] have a close mother-daughter relationship, and my mom is extremely jealous of that. She constantly makes comparisons and feels that it's unfair to her that we don't have that kind of relationship. She thinks that kind of relationship just happens when parents have kids, and doesn't understand that the groundwork for that was laid years ago and my mom parented in a way that made me feel smothered and like she didn't trust me to make my own choices. Ugh, this is tough stuff. I hate that it affects me this much. [/quote] OMG, my mom also befriended my good friends' moms. It drove me nuts. Like PPS said, there's no magic bullet. Just enforce the boundaries. Despite what you've said, you're still not doing it well, so therapy. It took years of minimal contact for my mother to change and I'm slowly allowing her back into my life.[/quote]
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