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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's tough OP. Coming at this from the other side my mom would do a similar post I am sure if this existed when we were this age. She would make us sound nuts and irrational and she would sound so reasonable and together. She would have everyone rallying around her and thinking we were spoiled brats because we went to good schools fully paid for and took nice trips growing up.

She would leave out the following:

-She had a frightening temper and would threaten to murder our father as she waved a knife.

-She was so high strung the slightest thing could set off her anger. My friends never wanted to come to my house after witnessing it. Until then, they were charmed by her.

-She obsessed over our bodies. She once sobbed because I gained weight in college (still normal range) and she could not bare to see how I ruined my small waist, flat stomach and butt. Over the next few months I exercised and restricted and lost a lot of weight. She chastised me for looking to thin and making people think I either had a cancer or an ED (again was normal weight-just bottom of range).

I could give a long list, but she would have you convinced we were just ungrateful, spoiled monsters for not appreciating our privileged childhood. Lots of gaslighting and you just give up and have a superficial relationship.[/quote]

That's awful. Your mother sounds like she was a narcissist.  Or borderline.  So sorry.[/quote]

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