Thanks Shez... The funny thing is that my wife knows how her mother is full well. She was raised in a pentacostal religious world and while my wife has moved away from that belief system she still has over 20 years of ingrained cultish beliefs to work through. And she tells me often that the situation is something she can't explain and barely understands herself as far as her behavior with her mother. I did say she was lied to and the thing is she knows it's all lies.

I am one that runs my mouth and tells it like it is regardless of others feelnigs. The fact is that I believe a good friend / husband is someone who tells you what things really are like. And my wife found my extreme honesty one of the qualities that drew her to me.