Guest guest Posted March 19, 2011 Report Share Posted March 19, 2011 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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