I'm having some problems with my mother and I dont know what to do. First of all you have to know some things about her. She has problems, like mental problems, and she wont admit it. I am Bipolar and I believe she is too, althought she denies it. She constantly belittles everything that I do. Shes one of those people that thinks nothing I ever do is good enough and that she is always right, and if I dont agree with everything that she says 100% she starts arguments with me. I am married and I have a 3 almost 4 year old daughter. I am a college student so I'm constantly busy with homework. My mother and my grandmother watch my daughter during the week so that I can get my homework done. My mother HATES my husband. She constantly tells me that he's dumb, and she says bad things about him all of the time. She also never uses his name, when she is talking about him she uses the name dumbf*ck, which she thinks is funny....and I've told her that I dont like it, and if she doesnt have anything good to say about him that she just shouldnt talk about him at all, she says these things in front of my daughter. She doenst listen to anything that I say, she doesnt respect me at all. I smoke but my house is smoke free, If I want a cigarette, I will go outside to smoke. She knows this but still walks in my house with a lit cigarette and then when I tell her to go outside she gets mad at me. She also walks through my house with dirty shoes on which i have told her repeatedly not to but she doenst listen to me. She one got physically and mentally violent when I didnt agree with her. She has called me "crazy" told me that I need to be committed, said that I was a bad parent (in a round about way) said that she doesnt know why my husband stays with me. She has hit me and pushed me, in front of my house. I almost fell backwards on my daughter because she pushed me while outside on the front steps of my house. I dont know what to do about her. She is very good with my daughter and she babysits for me when I have homework to get done. I dont know what to do because I need her to babysit. I try to ignore the things that shes done....its just getting harder all of the time. I'm thinking about just going a few weeks without contact with her at all, for me and my daughter. I'm hoping that she will realize that this kind of behavior is unacceptable, and that I wont put up with it anymore. She has always been like this im just at my wits end with her and I cant take it anymore. Right now, she doesnt see anything wrong with anything that shes done. She even makes jokes about it sometimes.