I just wanted to say that--that I wish I never had to see my mother again. But I'll have to spend the rest of my life being emotionally and physically there for her. I can never escape her. She was never there for me and I resent having to nurse her ego and take care of her as she gets older. I can never be happy or free. That's just the way it is.

I just wanted to add this. Parents can put their kids up for adoption and pretend they never existed. Why aren't children allowed to do that without being made to feel guilty, as if we owe it to parents just because they gave us birth?

IMHO, we don't owe lousy parents anything.

And one more thing. Of all the ways my mother let me down, I only told her once that I hated her. She wouldn't allow me to go to church when I was nine. She must have been afraid that someone would find out our dirty little secrets.

I hate her. There, I said it and mean it more than ever.