Life, I can relate to your experience with your Mom... I don't want to expand on my situation too much right now, but I wanted you to know you're not alone.

My teenaged daughter is getting very resentful of her grandma because she (Grandma) interrupts her every time she (my daughter) starts talking. And we're all going on holidays together at Christmas, then Mom is coming back here for another 3 weeks... yikes. I've promised my daughter that I will speak up and stop my Mom if she interrupts while DD is talking this time. I just pray I can do consistently (and without starting a fight with my Mom).

I don't know the solution -- doing anything but indulging my Mom tends to start an argument. How do you change someone so set in their ways?

Yours in empathy and support,

MHH