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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is no way I would be listening to all this drama from a parent as much as it sounds like you are. Of course you need boundaries.

You also might want to look into SPACE to see if you are helping or hurting your kids’ journeys with their own anxieties.[/quote]

Sometimes it helps just to just put her on speakerphone while I do chores or go for a walk.  She likes it better when I don't respond or say anything at all, so I don't even have to talk back to her.   But the sessions are usually at least an hour long, so it is time intensive.[/quote]

I am an anxious person and I think this is a form of interpersonal abuse you should not put up with.

So I agree with PP that if this is a thing you are feeling the need to do for your mother despite the fact that it is exploitative on her part, and you don’t like doing it and wish you could get out of it, which you manifestly do, that may not be best interpreted as a sign of how “anxious” she is.[/quote]

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