I know it's technically accurate, but it also leaves out a lot of important details and paints her as the aggressor and me as the victim. I mean, in the mentoring program situation it was probably a good call, because I needed the coordinator to be aware of my mother issues so she can match me with someone boundaried enough not to try to be my mother but who will also understand what's going on for me...but sometimes it feels like I'm telling the story a certain way to elicit care/comfort, and that just feels manipulative.