Alienation

by Cynthia
(Tucson, US)

All my young life, my aunt was my best support system. Her older sister, my mother, created a wedge between my aunt and I.

Fortunately when I became pregnant with my own daughter, it was my aunt I reached out to. By then she and my mother had been estranged from one another for a decade. When my aunt passed away, I was called to settle her affairs. I felt obligated to include my mother and wished I hadn't.

I've never liked my mother, have no respect for her and feel that she is doing the same thing to me that she did to her sister.

I got her a nice mother's day gift but can't even bring myself to call her anymore. I'll drop the gift off and am prepared to call it quits with her.

Any true conversation results in 'forgetfulness' or denial on her part!

She is now driving that same wedge between my younger brother and I. She is getting the same results. I look forward to our estrangement.