Parents won’t keep me out of it!
Anyone else dealt with parents who don’t respect boundaries? I’m 33, in a long term relationship, 2 kids, own home, work full time…aka independent and busy!
My parents WILL NOT stop bringing me into their marriage issues. They do not get along 99.9% of the time, my sister recently moved back in with them and her daughter so everyone is extra stressed. I get constant text messages from my parents bitching about each other (mostly my dad complaining about their marriage issues and how my sister is basically going to be the demise of the whole family). And my mom doesn’t talk to me AS much about it, but she will tell me about things my dad or sister do or say, ask for advice, say the same repetitive things over and over. This has been worse lately but my family has been dysfunctional most of my adult life. Had a great childhood but then shit seemed to hit the fan. I’ve told them for years they need to go to therapy, I’ll even go with them to try to help whatever I can. I’ve tried to talk to each one individually about their issues, nothing helps. No one does anything to try to make the situation better bc everyone is hard headed and thinks the other person is the problem. Everyone thinks I’m Dr. Phil and tells me to “talk to your mom, or you need to get in your sisters face and tell her xyz, or talk to your dad, he will listen to you (no he doesn’t). I’m sooooo tired of being the middle man, to where I don’t wanna deal with it and I don’t like being over there. My mom gets offended at this and I can understand her pain( she also had a super bad childhood and had an inferiority complex so I feel like she doesn’t have the happy family anymore that she always wanted) but I’ve told everyone it’s not a good feeling environment over there. I love everyone to death and I’ve tried to do what I can but at the end of the day NOT MY CIRCUS NOT MY MONKEYS!” I’ve got my own family and issues and life to deal with! I’ve been called cold and accused of not caring but I’m just at my whits end. My mom watches my kids a couple days a week, to which she says she enjoys and the kids love their grandparents to death (I know she loves them but yes, it’s a lot of work!) but then I hear my dad and sister say she complains about watching them…like wtf. I’m just tired of it all and wish I could cut ties for a while (I won’t, though I think it would be therapeutic for me but would hurt everyone else)….any advice? Bc my heart and my brain hurt!!!
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