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[quote=Anonymous]My mom is undiagnosed crazy of some kind. Perhaps borderline personality disorder. Who knows. She is perfect in her own eyes, and very delusional, and will never get the mental health help she needs.

I am also an only child, my parents are divorced (because my mom alienates everyone) and my mom was an only child. So she has no other family except for a few distant cousins who we don't speak w/because of my mom trying to sue them or something a decade or two ago.  As such, I feel VERY responsible for my mom.

BUT, I have realized as of late that I might be responsible  for her in the "emergency contact" manner of speaking, but I am not responsible for her happiness. Just like you aren't responsible for the happiness of your mom.

You are lucky that your mom has $. Mine has a very limited income, so being her "emergency contact" often means turning her phone back on, buying her groceries, picking up her prescriptions, etc.

It sucks for her that my mom is all alone, and she would love to fill that emptiness with me and/or my kids. However she has had a lifetime to develop a full life, but because of her mental illness she has no friends, no hobbies, she has a very empty life.

I take my kids to see her maybe once/month or two, because I don't want to see her more than that. She wants to see us more? Well maybe she shouldn't have left a 5 minute long message on my voicemail yelling at me and blaming me for her woes because I went on vacation with my kids without her. After a lifetime of similar actions.[/quote]

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