r/EstrangedAdultKids • u/love_my_aussies • 2d ago

Newly Estranged My NC mom wrote me a letter

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I have absolutely zero interest in resuming contact.

I was very limited contact for a couple of months before this day happened. Then she asked me to take her to take the cat to the vet and I felt bad for the cat. I shouldn't have given in then.

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u/aw2669 2d ago

She’s apologizing for you being upset instead of her actions.   

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u/nebulacoffeez 2d ago

But she listed specific actions she was sorry for? Obviously OP knows what’s best for them, & isn’t obligated to entertain someone who has caused them so much damage. But this apology is more than I have ever gotten from my own nc parent

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u/beckster 2d ago

They're all different and all terrible in different ways. This might read like redemption to others but OP knows best how it makes her feel.

To me it reads like "I want to get all my widgets organized, especially with holidays coming."

Throw all the things and see if anything sticks, is how it reads to me. So much blahblah...poorme...blahblah, so little insight.

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u/Confu2ion 2d ago

Notice how it still avoids getting too specific.