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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They are in their mid-70s, DH and I are in our early 50s, and we've had enough of them. Since the day we got married my parents have been painfully unpleasant to be around. They've been abusive during visits, commenting on our apartments and homes over the years (your dad is an expert and fixing XYZ, look at the horrible craftsmanship, how did you hire someone like this, where are they from!!), badmouthing our neighborhoods (tsk tsk you should have brought a house in our neighborhood, it's the best community in the USA), starting fights over the holidays, miserable phone calls that always culminate in stress and fights and being hung up on, chastising us over not being religious enough, and then pretty much gleeful when DOGE threatened our jobs (lazy feds deserve to be punished for all that fraud, ha!!).

So, we're done. I have one sibling who is very close to them and tolerates a lot of their crap (I think it's the anti-anxiety meds that make it so easy to listen to them without wanting to throw them out of her house), therefore she may be the one handling their healthcare needs when the time comes. I want to be a better person but they sure have earned it from me. Is there any hope? [b]I have to say that the lack of communication with them has brought such peace into my life. [/b][/quote]

I never regretted NC with my mother and stepfather. The few times they weaseled back in? Regretted that every time. YMMV[/quote]

This. The peace is wonderful. [/quote]

Be good to your children people or you may find yourself unsuccessfully begging them to visit you from your deathbed. Ask me how I know.[/quote]

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