My DM has been using me as her emotional sounding board for years. She dumps every single problem on to me and needs me to validate everything she does. She needs me to listen to her vent. It’s exhausting and very detrimental to my mental health.
She text me this morning at 7am this morning to tell me that my dad has a bad back, struggled to get out of bed and was in pain and what should she do? I said if it’s that bad ring out of hours, she said she’d leave it until 9 and do it then. So I’m not sure why she even text me. Then I text back at 10am having not heard anything and she replies that he’d taken pain relief, had taken the dog for a walk and was going to wait until tomorrow to see the GP. So why the hell did she text me first thing? It really made me panic as I thought my dad was seriously ill when the text popped up so early!
This is just one of many things I could write. Earlier in the week she sat there and ruminated on and on at me about whether or not she’d had have to cancel her forthcoming holiday because of Coronavirus. How the fuck should I know what she should do?
It’s so draining and one sided as she has no interest in my worries. She’s only early 60’s and I’m already having nightmares wondering what she will be like at 80 if she’s this bad now,
Help!