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Is it normal to feel nothing for abusive family members? (good advice here)
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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 674007" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>That's different to me, Leafie. You WERE under REAL stress and angst and your kids were much older. My mother told me that story when I was still a child and repeated it through the years. That, along with calling me horrible names such as brat, stupid, selfish, and others...long as a roll of toilet paper. I'm sure you didn't do that to your kids when they were children.</p><p></p><p>My mother also tried and succeeded in getting the siblings to fight. I don't think tbe three of us ever all talked to one another at the same time. But the scapegoat was definitely me because I called her out on our crazed family and also because I had challenges that she called "being baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad." I am still the scapegoat of my siblings. Mommie Dearest.</p><p></p><p>Leafie, we all say things, but hopefully we apologize (I always do) to our older kids when they cause us grief and they say things to us (and if they are not difficult children they also apologize). Way different.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 674007, member: 1550"] That's different to me, Leafie. You WERE under REAL stress and angst and your kids were much older. My mother told me that story when I was still a child and repeated it through the years. That, along with calling me horrible names such as brat, stupid, selfish, and others...long as a roll of toilet paper. I'm sure you didn't do that to your kids when they were children. My mother also tried and succeeded in getting the siblings to fight. I don't think tbe three of us ever all talked to one another at the same time. But the scapegoat was definitely me because I called her out on our crazed family and also because I had challenges that she called "being baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad." I am still the scapegoat of my siblings. Mommie Dearest. Leafie, we all say things, but hopefully we apologize (I always do) to our older kids when they cause us grief and they say things to us (and if they are not difficult children they also apologize). Way different. [/QUOTE]
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