Not because anything new has happened recently, but I remain quite skeptical that things would be capable of working out with these people. The reason is simply that for one people who behave like this generally ARE narcissists, especially when you consider the fact that they not only were extremely harmful to my emotional health and seemed to not care (and my Mom even said that she didn't during one of her attacks)......... but never once did I get anything resembling an apology for any of it. I haven't brought it up, but it just seems like if things were any different there would have been some sort of processing of things which would result in an apology. But there has been no apology. No return to the behavior from before but no apology either........ just nothing said at all. And I'm likely just being "suckered back in" by not cutting them off, yet I don't know this for certain. But still, it just doesn't seem like any decent person would act like this and then not even apologize for it. Plus, to be honest, even if they did "come around" and it somehow was different now (which I suppose there's a remote chance that this is the case), I still don't think I'd ever really trust them entirely. I'd always wonder if perhaps they simply had started smearing me behind my back (which they may be doing) or had some other abusive game in mind for me that I hadn't caught on to yet.