I feel so drained. I just don’t know what to do. My mother is driving me crazy, literally. She lives with me and my husband but she puts a real strain on me and my marriage. She lives with us because she is on oxygen and I don’t feel comfortable with her living on her own, and when my husband and I moved to California last year I thought that it would be best if she came too. But now I feel like that was a big mistake. I have never been close to my mom, he didn’t raise me she left me with my grandma and her and my brother moved to another state. I never really knew her untill I was 10, my grandma and I moved to where she was when she was diagnosed with her lung disease. We have never gotten along but sincemy brother doesn’t want her to live with him I’m stuck. I feel like she tries to make me miserable on purpose. She’s always calling me names and saying mean and nasty things to me, but what canI do? She’s my mother. I don’t even know why she even wants to stay with me, since I’ve known her she has always told me that she doesn’t like me and that she didn’t choose me, she just had me. But with all of this I feel like I can’t ask her to leave, I know I don’t owe her anything but I feel like God will punish me if I don’t take care of her. I feel like she is using me. I’ve told her many times how I feel but she doesn’t care, she just calls me pathetic and weak a bully’s me into submission. I just don’t know what to do, but I don’t think that her and I can continue to live under the same roof for too much longer.
{June 9, 2008} Unruly Mother