Thank you for saying so, Megan and I'm sorry you had that awful interaction with your stepmom,... but I'm also glad maybe she got to hear a little bit about the difference between picking someone as a husband and being born to them as their daughter.
She's been unmedicated for the last 6 months or so... and, well... let's just say 'it shows'. But her having delusions that I'm stealing her CD player are much preferred to her delusions that her neighbors are conspiring to murder her dog, and then her, and are leaving threatening voicemails for her on an answering machine even though she also is clear that she KNOWS she doesn't have an answering machine. So... I suppose I'll take it all as a win. Ha!
I don't find her attacks personally hurtful, it's sorta like a toddler tantrum where they are screaming, "YOU'RE MEAN! I HATE YOU, MOM!!!" because they were denied ice cream or something. What really gets me is when she says these things she feels/thinks about me in a passing mood.... to third parties.
Accusing ME of withholding/stealing/etc to my face? I can handle that and have that talk... it's a common one. Accusing me of withholding/stealing/etc to a third party who knows nothing about me OR her, or to other family members where it becomes gossip, or friends or clerks or whoever she decided to wrangle to "her side"? That is MUCH less pleasant, and far more hurtful.
She's been unmedicated for the last 6 months or so... and, well... let's just say 'it shows'. But her having delusions that I'm stealing her CD player are much preferred to her delusions that her neighbors are conspiring to murder her dog, and then her, and are leaving threatening voicemails for her on an answering machine even though she also is clear that she KNOWS she doesn't have an answering machine. So... I suppose I'll take it all as a win. Ha!
I don't find her attacks personally hurtful, it's sorta like a toddler tantrum where they are screaming, "YOU'RE MEAN! I HATE YOU, MOM!!!" because they were denied ice cream or something. What really gets me is when she says these things she feels/thinks about me in a passing mood.... to third parties.
Accusing ME of withholding/stealing/etc to my face? I can handle that and have that talk... it's a common one. Accusing me of withholding/stealing/etc to a third party who knows nothing about me OR her, or to other family members where it becomes gossip, or friends or clerks or whoever she decided to wrangle to "her side"? That is MUCH less pleasant, and far more hurtful.
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