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Hi!👋 I’m Julie and I’m from southern California. My 23 year old daughter estranged herself from me in May 2023. She has struggled with mental health issues since she was 14 (multiple hospitalizations). She has not been compliant with meds / therapy since she turned 18. She has self medicated with THC. She has also been heavily influenced by peers. She refuses to speak with me about anything. I have begged her to do therapy together … something to offer me any speck of insight. Over the past 1.5 years, I have continued working on myself (the only thing I can control). I have been forced to “let go.” I have been angry, sad, frustrated …. I have respected the “space” my daughter has asked for and felt she needed. I have tried to reach out a few times - letting her know that without any questions or judgement, I’m still here - ready and waiting for her … when she is ready. Of course I hope and pray that there will be a day that she is ready … but I’ve also tried hard to embrace the possibility that she might never be ready. I used to feel that I needed to understand what went wrong between us … but I’ve come to terms that I’m ok if that understanding doesn’t happen. The relationship and moving forward is more important to me. For now, I’d just like some sort of communication and connection on her terms … whatever will make her feel safe. Hoping to connect with … and support/encourage others here. There is learning and hope in community. This has been a journey that has broken me to my core. I know God uses those broken places to bless others.

My mother drives me nuts. I'm sad that I can't even feel love for her anymore. I can't stand her. I think she feels the same way about me. Even though I'm not the one who's lied to others to turn them against me, made up stories to get me in trouble, promised to treat me better and only did for a short time before regressing back to being an entitled, demanding, emotionally neglectful, self absorbed demon woman. She's a narcissist, but the kind who calls anyone who disagrees with her a narcissist. Anytime I share my thoughts, perspectives, beliefs, and it's different from hers then I'm somehow the demon! Like the flip of a switch and I'm her worst enemy out to ruin her life as if I'm not even her daughter! Yet she acts like she cares so much and doesn't understand why I won't talk to her anymore. When the only reason she ever talks to me is to get me to do what she wants! I'm sick of it, I'm sick of her, I'm sick of feeling like I don't matter as a person of my own. Like I'm just an extension of her. Like I can't even talk about it online with others who get it without it somehow coming back around to ruin my life or my little brothers life who still has to live with her.

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Hi, I'm glad to have found this community. I'm hoping to discover some insight into my daughter's estrangement. She is gay and we have polar opposite political views - since the election, she has gone radio silent. Just prior to her going no-contact, she told me she is sad and disappointed that I could vote for someone who (as she perceives) will take away her rights as a gay woman. I have always loved and supported her and adore her wife and them as a couple. Since the election four years ago, I have strived to not discuss politics with her - and have never questioned or maligned her voting choices - but I feel that she has made the results of this year's election personal against me. How do I reconcile this? My sympathies and prayers go out to any other Mamas going through this with their daughters 🙏