((((((((((Yo Alikat)))))))))))))))

As a fellow long-time MPDer; I'm still finding myself surprised that your "Mommy Dearest" sounds like mine!

Mine throws me for those kind of loops all the time. She will send a Major Guilt-trippin' e-mail one day; and 2 days later I get one of her "treasured pieces" of jewelry! (I'm the only girl, so I'm "supposed to inherit"....she's still pissed off that I didn't have any children; especially a girl to pass down the family tradition)

She knew my father was sexually abusing me on a daily basis, but she just took her Valium & tuned out to my brother's acts of vandalism & burgulary (sp?) To this day, she just says "Your father had problems....you had problems.......work it out yourself!"

I just send very formal e-mails & don't give her any material to "work with" These times "Jessie" (our 10 yr old) still cries b/c she didn't have a mother in her mind... is STILL looking for a "fill-in" after gawd knows how many years! She drags around an extremely beat-up, old teddy bear that she "stole" from my Mother during our "enforced home visits" from one group home or another (don't want to remember anymore)

After all these years of Tx....don't you wonder sometimes when stuff like this still bothers us? I know I do...guess it's part of that "wandering syndrome?"

Try not to let it rattle you too much.....you've come TOO FAR, Alikat! (yeah......"easier said than done")

PM me if things get too weird for you? Open 24/7! (((((((((((DAYZEE9))))))))))))))))