Guest guest Posted September 1, 2010 Report Share Posted September 1, 2010 This article has me thinking and stewing a bit I'm curious to see others reactions to it. I'm fighting a bit of internal FOGgging. http://www.salon.com/life/feature/2010/09/01/my_mother_deathbed/index.html And do any of you get the feeling that the author had an unhappy relationship with the mother and was an involuntary caregiver? I worry about the social pressure on me to do the same when the time comes. I hope to do most everything to manage her care long distance, but...it produces lots of conflicting emotions. My mother never beat me or tried to kill me or even attempted suicide. Sometimes I wonder if I belong on this board even, but my therapists say she's BPD, and she still managed to completely eff me up with emotionally anyway. Yet a little voice says what she did wasn't extreme *enough* for me to leave her to die " alone " . Yet for me to live close enough to her for that not to be the case, I'd live close enough for her to make me insane - possibly for years - before she got to her end of life. So I still stand by my choices living far away, making phone calls, but I feel a storm is coming and I'm not sure I'm ready. Anybody else in this boat? Do you worry that it's a big enough boat? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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