For All Those Members Wanting / Trying To Maintain Relationships With Toxic Family Members

[CraftyCath]

My parents are both dead, they never new what I'd been through. I see my sister regularly and my brother sometimes. Other family I steer clear of. My husbands family are self absorbed and I find being around them very difficult.

They say blood is thicker than water. That might be so but water is so much more refreshing!

 

[a3a2]

I wish I were strong enough to cut the ties. My parents are in their 80s, but pretty healthy. Manipulative. Yet I believe they do it out of fear and because of their own untreated mental illness. I continue to sacrifice my own well being so as to save them from pain. I wish I could mentally detatch. Then I could still meet their needs without allowing their $*@# to eat me alive. Thank God I live several states away.

Cutting ties looks more and more like freedom. I may just get there yet.....