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[quote=Anonymous]Call less. Just make it clear it breaks your heart she won't take care of her heart and you wish she'd get out more, but it's her choice. Then have your own limit.

My mother is in everyone's business, bad-mouths family, complains incessantly and is just plain miserable. She does so well on medication but won't stay on it. I have a tremendous amount of stress and am very busy with work and family life (one of my kids has special needs that requires lots of doctor appointments). I don't have the time to be brought down into her abyss. I change the subject when she badmouths people and I don't enable the negativity. I can't even validate her anger/anxiety/distress anymore because I have my own physical pain/stress/etc and I just deal.

My whole life I was her emotional dumping ground. Now she either needs to find a therapist and tale meds or dump on a friend. i check on her but won't engage in any of it anymore. That infuriates her so she actually stops talking to me to punish me. It's a nice break honestly.[/quote]

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