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: There was a time not so long ago that I would have felt obligated to be her captive audience so she could dish out all the abuse she wanted.
: I was more than patient with her and should have hung up on her sooner!
If it's any consolation, my own mother disowned me the day after we buried my father. (She was not able to make the burial because she wanted my dub sister to hire a limo for her convenience. Fact.) They were married to each other for 55 years (my Dad was an idiot for that, and I told him so twenty five years ago. He was a good man who liked to live with a wicked woman.)
She disowned me because I told her I had taken fifty years of "child" abuse from her, and that now my father was gone I would tolerate it no longer. She has spent fifty years calling me a loser, worthless, stupid and a failure. She did this when I was growing up in her home, while I was pioneering, and since I've left her pet cult. Almost every time she would call me up (3 times a week), I would hang up and be depressed. My own mother made a business out of calling her oldest child and only son a worthless person. So, I disfellowshipped her in my mind. I haven't talked to her since the night of September 10th, and she doesn't even know how to contact me and torment me.
She is alone now, angry, and has no one else left to abuse. Good.
Farkel