Guest guest Posted March 19, 2011 Report Share Posted March 19, 2011 AWESOME Good Girl!!!! On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 12:57 PM, healthyjasmine <jasmineintuition@... > wrote: > > > It's been over a week since my mother made a suicide threat, yelled at me, > and then hung up. I haven't called her and am glad she hasn't called me. > > She and one of my cousins are involved in a long-running land sale(land my > mother inherited from my father) and for several years, my cousin has > emailed me about it with legal attachments and I print them out and send > them to my mother (my mother doesn't have email). I never actually agreed to > do it but my cousin sent them and asked me to give them to my mother. I > thought it was odd but went along with it. I guess I agreed implicitly. > > This week, I got email from my cousin telling me that after a dozen years > of wrangling, the land deal is dead and they'll have to start over trying to > sell the land. They attached a letter from the attorney. I thought about it > for a couple of days and realized I didn't want to send it. So I sent email > to my cousin this morning saying that given the news, she would need to send > mail directly to my mother or to call her. > > I feel relieved to have stepped out of the middle of this and wonder why it > didn't occur to me to do it sooner. At the ripe age of 55+, I'm finally > setting boundaries. Go me! :-) > > Jasmine > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 19, 2011 Report Share Posted March 19, 2011 A big thumb's up from me! Sometimes it takes a while, but doesn't it feel great when you finally do realize that you DO have options and you CAN step away from the drama! Go Jasmine! I take it that your mother has made suicide threats before as a manipulative gesture and has never attempted to actually follow through with the act. If so, that's good that her's are just empty threats. My Sister and I decided that if our nada makes another suicide threat we are taking it seriously and calling 911 to go pick up nada and evaluate her. This is a relatively new behavior on our nada's part, so we don't have enough experience to know if she means it or not. In any case, I'm glad for you that you've chose to bypass the whole land-sale mishmosh. -Annie > > It's been over a week since my mother made a suicide threat, yelled at me, and then hung up. I haven't called her and am glad she hasn't called me. > > She and one of my cousins are involved in a long-running land sale(land my mother inherited from my father) and for several years, my cousin has emailed me about it with legal attachments and I print them out and send them to my mother (my mother doesn't have email). I never actually agreed to do it but my cousin sent them and asked me to give them to my mother. I thought it was odd but went along with it. I guess I agreed implicitly. > > This week, I got email from my cousin telling me that after a dozen years of wrangling, the land deal is dead and they'll have to start over trying to sell the land. They attached a letter from the attorney. I thought about it for a couple of days and realized I didn't want to send it. So I sent email to my cousin this morning saying that given the news, she would need to send mail directly to my mother or to call her. > > I feel relieved to have stepped out of the middle of this and wonder why it didn't occur to me to do it sooner. At the ripe age of 55+, I'm finally setting boundaries. Go me! :-) > > Jasmine > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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