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• Friday, November 3, 2006 07:32 AM

  For once,

  most of the letters here are correct. Usually, there are a bunch of people who blame the victim and write in to dump on the poor LW, who has already experienced enough crap; otherwise the person would not have written to Cary in the first place.

  The situation in this letter hits very close to home. My mother suffers from depression and alcoholism. I do not wish to go into a lot of detail about Mom's situation here, as I'm at work and don't want to start crying. But I will say that it has created problems with my family. My husband is like the LW's sister. I was fine with not speaking to Mom for seven years. During that time, I went to school and earned a degree, worked when my school schedule permitted and raising our daughter (who was 2 when I quit speaking to Grandma and 9 when the relationship resumed). My husband, however, was disturbed. You'd think he would have been grateful not to have to deal with his mother-in-law, but he was not. Now when I think of telling my mother or father to go to hell, my husband gives me the same line, namely "You're going to regret that after your parents are gone." Frankly, I don't think that will happen, and even if it did, so what? Everyone has to deal with regret at sometime in life. I think that old line is something old people use to manipulate younger ones. Oldsters can't exactly challenge us to a duel or a wrestling match and expect to win. But they play the guilt card, and it works in their favor every time.

  —Booboobabies Read Booboobabies's other letters
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