Jax, my mom was my abuser (I'll leave out the method). I've put up with her crap for way too long, and I just decided I wasn't going to take anymore. So I don't. She's a very mean-spirited person (others comment on it, not just her family) and very difficult to like. It makes my stomach turn to say I love her, because it's not true. Frankly, the longer she lives, the more she torments me, and it will be a relief -- possibly the first I've ever had from her -- when she dies.

May sound horrible, but it's true for me.

CB