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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Strangers find my mother attentive and gracious. As a kid, my friends would tell me "oh your mother is so kind". Some of them couldn't believe that I was being smothered and controlled. In reality, she's hypercritical and hypercontrolling. I was not allowed to go out when I got home from school. I was not allowed to socialize with friends outside of school. I couldn't phone anyone without her breathing down my neck. Anytime I wanted normal clothes, she called me a whore. She bought me extra baggy clothing. She wouldn't admit that I had pollen allergies and every spring I suffered terribly while she'd say "you caught a cold, put on a sweater". It's only when my eye allergies got so bad that I needed to be taken to a doctor and he said I'd narrowly avoided permanent scarring on my cornea, that she took my allergies seriously.

I was so glad to escape in my early 20s and make a life on the other side of the Atlantic.

And when she started on my kids, and called my toddler daughter fat, that's when I cut her off. My husband persuaded me to reconnect, but I will never trust her ever again. She's mentally ill and will never accept it.

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Thanks for posting PP. Glad to know you have a loving new family and are a caring mom to your own kids. Hugs to you.  [/quote]

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