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Old 09-13-2018, 09:24 AM   #12 (permalink)
Blitzgal
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I'm friends with my mom, and we got even closer after my dad died when I was 16, however I fully understand that there are times you need to either cut yourself off from your family or need to establish clear boundaries with them if they are toxic people. My mother left home at 17 and never saw her parents again. I never met them, and we didn't go to their funerals. And from her stories, I get it. Her dad was a violent alcoholic and her mother minimally was depressive but undiagnosed and untreated, would spend weeks at a time in bed "sick," leaving my mom to bear the brunt of her father's rage and take care of her younger siblings. My mom worked two jobs while she was also going to high school, and had to hide her money because they'd steal it all. Some people are just shit and need to be left behind.
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