Since I sent the "gift" back to mother a month and a half ago, I haven't had contact with her. She has sent Christmas and birthday cards to my little boy and not to my older son, presumably because she feels she should do her best to make the youngest see her in a favorable light. My husband has opened these cards for the little one and screened them. It is so friggin' freeing to be able to envision an NC life. I can really feel how amazing NC is. A life without being gaslighted, sabotaged, lied to, corrupted, isolated, and inappropriately controlled is sweet.
It wasn't that long ago I was defending her and in denial about her manipulations. In a biblical phrase, which appropriate for her bible-thumping ways, "For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face..." (1 Corinthians 13:12) She used to say how she preferred the King James version, but I couldn't speak as to her preference now that she can't shove her beliefs down my throat.
I can just BE.
It's so awful that your mother sends gifts to one child and not the other. But it also is such clear proof that your mother is a big problem. Normal people do not do crap like that.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations, Bess!
ReplyDeleteIn my experience it (NC) just gets better and better as time moves on. You've done a load of hard, painful work to get where you are today and you'll reap the benefits for the rest of your life-no, I'm not exaggerating either observation.
There's such Freedom and Acceptance inherent in the ability to "just BE." Enjoy!
TW