3. People who aren't close with their mothers anymore. What happened?

People who aren't close with their mothers anymore. What happened?

Mom and I were pretty much inseparable up until about 7 years ago when we moved out of my hometown. I don't know if she has gotten worse or if I can just see things better because we don't live near them anymore. I am on the verge of being completely NC with both my parents now.

Mom only calls me when she needs something or wants to see the kids. I used to call her all the time and then realized I was the only one calling so I stopped to see if she would call. It took several months and it was something pretty serious (my nieces was pregnant I think. My sister (still lives there) called a few weeks in and asked why I was mad at mom. Mom had complained to her rather than just call me. I told sis how I felt about the situation and she said she was being treated the same way.

When we are together she criticizes everything I do. My food is gross, my dogs are too big, the sheets are a bad color, I should have somehow prevented the movers from breaking a really old thing that was probably going to break anyway... It is never ending.

She tries to sabotage our parenting and thinks it's funny to do so. This one pisses me off the most. She takes any parenting decision that is different from hers as a personal attack on her parenting and makes me feel guilty for it. She will do the opposite when she has them and then tell us with an evil laugh that she did it.

She lies, withholds information from me and likes to portray other people as being evil. I no longer live near the family so I used to depend on her for all the family information. Something tipped me off once as most likely being untrue so I cross referenced with my sister and found out mom was embellishing - flat out lying about stupid shit for reasons unknown to me/mental illness.

She is constantly on the attack one way or another and she knows there is something wrong with her. I have tried to convince her to go to therapy many times and she "won't go until dad goes because he needs it more than she does". My kids don't even like visiting them anymore and they used to adore them.

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