Has anyone gone NC with their family? I just couldn't take the emotional manipulation and baseless guilt tripping anymore...
I grew up in a dysfunctional family. Emotionally manipulative mother, absent, avoidant father. I had to parent my parents throughout my life until I decided last year at 34 years of age, to block my mother. My father I didn't need to block because he never reached out to me actively once in his life. Although I emigrated across the globe to another far off country he never once really cared I guess. So he developed cancer a year ago and has very recently passed away. My mother thought that pushing him to undergo chemo might be a good idea because she couldn't accept him passing basically. She hid the fact that chemo basically wouldn't amount to anything since my father already had major surgery and many of his organs were removed... It's a whole story but I basically was so done when I visited home for the last time while he was still somehow in OK shape. She fed him harmful food while he should have been on a clean diet, put harsh chemicals and perfumes everywhere and all over so tonedeaf and blind to cancer facts and precautions. I was beyond myself but also having constant panic attacks being so overwhelmed with the whole delusion that was taking place. I stayed for a day, packed my bags, blocked my mother and flew back home. Haven't spoken to her for over a year, never miss her. I rather feel peaceful. I grew up being everyones emotional dumpster and caretaker, crisis manager, advisory and whatnot and in the end noone listened to me and everything still happened the way I predicted. I have a very distinct view of life and death, am spiritually connected in my own way. Our differences just can not be overcome. I am sick of emotional manipulation, and guilt tripping. Which is why I went NC. Has anyone here made a similar decision?