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Originally Posted by ennie
I'm so sorry you are hurting  Insecure people feel the need to put others down to feel good about themselves. How long have they been like this? We all have limits and we can only take crap from someone for so long before we say enough is enough. |
How long is a good question.
As a whole family collectively, I would say we were a good family. I never experienced this kind of trauma until this incident.
My relationship with my mom, I’d have said was a very good one. While she did ‘disown’ me at 18, I honestly wasn’t that upset about it. She started to give me real struggle once I married, ruining holidays, more ‘disowning’ silent treatment that would last to eternity. It was always me to have to call her to make peace.
She’s sick herself and got a lot worse to what I feel is diagnosable at this point.
I never had a bad relationship with my sisters.
One sister, moved as far as she can get. I’ve maybe seen her a dozen times in 30 years. We did get close recently by phone, and I went there to visit. It was such a good visit, we were talking about my moving there!
My other sister lives close enough that she visited Mom all the time, and I’d see her then. I would go visit her often with my husband and kids. We always had a great time!
My step dad is just a simple, nice man. There’s nothing more to him.