Kayla

I do, yeah.

Hi, I'm Kayla.

I'm 34, and my mom keeps shit-talking my dad to me, and I can't get her to respect my boundary to stop.

Social, say things, and I...

Tell her that it makes me uncomfortable.

And she'll say something along the lines of, well, I thought we were friends.

I thought I could talk to you about anything.

And I say, well, choose another friend for this one because I really don't like it.

It makes me uncomfortable.

And then she gets mad at me.

And then whenever she's mad at me, she won't talk to me for a little bit.

And then I'm very close with my mom.

We talk.

Multiple times a day.

We talk on the phone.

We talk about most things.

So when she doesn't talk to me, I get like really upset and anxious and I end up apologizing and then we move on from there.

Gotcha.

Yeah, they've been married for 40 years.

uh and sometimes she'll also like pick fights in front of me with him and she'll just like talk to him really mean in front of me and i'm like mom like can you stop doing that she's like well you always just put your dad on a pedestal you always take his side and and then i tell her like well you know if he did the same thing to you i would tell him the same thing but he doesn't do that and just kind of like repeats the cycle from there your mom sounds like a bully yeah she can be