Posting about this again
Because ya'll always help me. How do I cut ties with a family member who is suicidal? I want to set boundaries, which I've done over the past 2 years, but I am all she has and when she's mad at me she threatens suicide. I honestly can't go get her and take her to the hospital. I will not expose my toddler son to that situation. But if she does kill herself I'll have to live with that guilt for the rest of my life. Plus she's my mother and I don't want to lose her. But she has been verbally and emotionally abusive to us for 15 years. Here's some examples.
When my sister, who was perfect, got in trouble for something minor as a teen she said she will just run away. My mom said. Do it, no one will ever want you anyway.
When we dropped my sister off at college I cried on the way home. She said you're not really sad, you're just scared of having more chores.
One time she was having a mental break down and was screaming at my 5 year old brother and I while we were cowering in a corner of my room.
She almost ruined my wedding and threatened many time that she won't come because she didn't get to make the decorations with me.
The day I was to give birth to my son she walked into the delivery room with a cold, bitchy face because, let's be honest, it wasn't all about her. I wouldn't let her or anyone in the delivery room or stay at our house after.
She mocks my religion, calls me selfish and a hypocrite. Most recently she called me a bitch and to go to hell.
So do I cut her out and let her make what ever decision she's gonna make?
Or do I just keep pushing on?
Edit: She absolutely refuses therapy. She has many things in her past that have made her this way. Her parents were abusive and alcoholics. She has an abortion at 17 which I just heard about a few weeks ago.
Achieve your health goals from period to parenting.