[john70t]

Mine is a few years older, and that will never change despite a negligible 2% difference in age. Read between the lines if you will. She believes she my mother and not my equal sibling still. Willing to do anything, anything, to retain power over that position of authoratah. Any dirty trick in the book is a possibility. Just trust me in that. There have been some OMG/WTF/SMH moments at the very worst times.

Any attempt at mutual respect or a heart-to-heart conversation once per decade, as in "I genuinely care about how you are doing and what you feel and am willing to at least listen to what I might disagree with" leads to superficial wandering and changing subjects.

Any full-on logical debate leads to complete meltdown and crying fits. She still has a bad infection of temporary or permanent US liberalitis despite not even living here. She has actively joined groups to justify such. Any attempt to meet halfway or agree on something, something, in this entire world is verboten. Without going any further on the internet my impression is that the ironic idiosyncrasy in values must be known to her brain and be a heavy weight only to overcome with extended rationalization.

But the differences between us is not my place to judge or change.
She seems to be doing fine and I'm remotely glad of that. Whatever works.

(just as a side note for mods: The "remember me" login function doesn't seem to be working. I got logged out within the 5-10 minutes of typing this)