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[quote=Anonymous]My mother is like this. I learned to detach with therapy. I moved away from phone calls because it took me time to recover from them. I send cards with well wishes and email only where I can keep things polite and ignore jabs. If she has money, suggest to your sister hiring a geriatric case manager as other person mentioned. If there isn't money, I would offer to look into the options within mom's budget or if you have a lot of money offer to pay for it. Your sister can decline and that's on her. My mother lives to suck people into her drama with guilt trips and any manipulation she can think of. It got worse with age. It is painful, but I had to detach and outsource to get back my will to live and to be able to focus on my spouse and kids and our own life stressors. [/quote]
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