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I dropped my mother off at the airport this morning. I love her, but I am so, so relieved for her to go now. This isn't her fault, she is who she is, but I have never met a person so pathologically self-centered that she doesn't even know the harm she does. She acts as if whatever is happening in her head must be happening in everyone's head. Does she not have a theory of mind? I'm not always good and calm, but it is so difficult when someone interprets everything you say in the most uncharitable possible way. I think she might be the only person in the world I cannot regularly get along with. This is a confession.

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0b817937... 9mo ago

i have an aunt who is exactly like you described. i'm so glad she lives in south africa. she's toxic and my poor mother occasionally has to deal with her over the phone.

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SuiGenerisJohn 9mo ago

We don't get to choose our family.

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