At this point my mother is in her final years. I have nothing more to fight about with her. She knows she failed at exploiting me. She knows she is going to fall down by herself. That’s the way she wants it.

I took my folks to a memorial for their friend yesterday. It was in an assisted living home. The minute my mom walked in she got nervously triggered and said “Don’t ever put me in one of these places. .

But we all got along fine yesterday. I have now learned that she can hang up on me and then if she acts like it was nothing, then I will too.