Only you can decide what the boundaries are, says Annalisa Barbieri, but you must know in your heart your mother is never going to change
My mother is constantly demanding information and more time with me and my family. How can I politely keep my distance without being unduly rude.
I am an only child and my father beat me. My mother insisted that we had to accept it; he earned a lot of money and she liked the lifestyle we had. When I came out as gay, he cut off contact with me, and we are not in touch. He has never met or acknowledged my wife and our children. My mother divorced him only recently.
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