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Old Jan 06, 2016, 04:13 PM
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Originally Posted by marmaduke View Post
Your mother sounds engulfing. Too involved, she wants to live her life through you.
To her you are still a child, part of her that she wants to control.
I somehow agree with that. She would like to know everything that is happening in my life and at the same time she doesn't have much to tell about what has happened in her life apart from work. She often tells me what she has heard on the news.

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Originally Posted by marmaduke View Post
It's probably best if you don't have much to do with her. She wont change. IMO she has narcissitic traits. She cannot see beyond her own selfish needs.
I never thought of her as a narcissist. She hardly does anything truly beneficial for herself. If one asks her where would she like to go, she would say that she would go anywhere where we would like to go. If it's food - anything we would eat. If it's activities - anything that we would do. It is actually really hard to deal with that.
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