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Are your adult children not talking to you, like mine!!

Sandy - posted on 07/06/2010 ( 3 moms have responded )

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Ok I have 5 children and my 2 girls are not talking to me, one is 32 and the other one is 29. The older one doesn't like the way i raised her (too strict), but she isn't talkingto siblings either, just my twins who are 16, not talking to my other granchildren either and she has one of my granchildren he is 6 I have seen him 3 times. My other daughter thinks I am being disloyal cause I am talking to her sons' (4) father, actually he is a friend of mine and a good father. She has another child by another guy (4 months) and I can't stand him, he is very manipulative and controlling her, as I feel the guy from my other daughter.

I made a choice from the 2nd one cause he was verbally abusive to me and my daughter didn't find a problem with that and actually she has been mean and yelling at me for 6 months, so the choice I made is to not watch my granchildren anymore and to stop speaking with my daughter. She actually isn't talking to the other people who are speaking with him also. I feel bad cause I am not talking to them but they are adults and if they don't want to speak to me, it is what it is. Believe me with the older one I have tried for 3 years to try to get her back into the fold and she says "i am not ready" well, honestly I am tired of walking on eggshells with both of them.

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Barb - posted on 10/28/2010

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i'm not really sure i just pipe up on this one, as i've had an on and off relationship with my mother since she forced me out at 14.

Maybe from the prospective of an adult child to my mother, it might be helpful.

I'd like my mom to be herself. To let me like her for the adult she is, and for her to like me for the adult i am.

I don't allow my friends to talk bad about my spouse or my family and that means her too. If she doesn't have anything nice to say, she shouldn't say it at all.

She shouldn't pin her regrets on me or think i am her. We weren't raised by the same parents or in the same time era.

If the mother/daughter relationship isn't working out, how about we try a friendship? I know she may love her daughter, but does she like me, does she even know me?

Sandy - posted on 07/13/2010

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that is the problem i am not walking on eggshells and watching what i say, deal with it you are adults..

Carol - posted on 07/10/2010

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Adult children are so hard. Almost as bad as the teen years. You have to be careful of what you say and what you don't! It's like a double edged sword. I would just back off for awhile and leave everyone be. Let them come to you and don't discuss child A with Child B, I promise that will backfire!!! Best of luck to you.

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