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My mother is 75. Me and my brother are still 12 to her. Tells us how to do everything. Tells us how to drive to places we've been driving to all our lives. And the driving!! Total leadfoot. Stoplight drags everyone. Refuses to let anyone get in front of her, gets POed when they do. Says it makes her feel better. She thinks there is a band of thieves lurking right outside the door, ready to steal all her worthless crap.
*****es continuously about stuff she has no control over (mostly other people). Remembers stuff from 60 years ago with vivid clarity, down to what she was wearing even. 60 seconds, minutes, days, weeks, months ago...not so much. Has a 2 to 3 week horizon on any conversation we have, meaning we have the same discussion over and over again.
It's getting worse.
And it's getting old.
She made my father miserable for his last days alive. He almost left her. It floored me when he told me that about 2 months before he died. Now she's trying to do the same to her sister.
I can forgive all of this, except what she did to my Pop.
I keep it to myself though.

Thanks...That felt good.

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