Yesterday I caught up with my sisters. Our family isn't very close, for reasons that will become clear. We tell each other things but we don't hang out enough to have the time.
Anyways, over an hour or so if just the 3 of us together, both Divulged the following;
DM strangled DS2, in a fit of rage becUse I'd gone out and not been home in time. She left bruises and drew blood. We were all in our twenties at this stage
Rang DS 3 at university some 200 mules away to say she was about to kill herself and wld do it in the house so no one would be able to stop her.
My DM has been an abusive and unstable parent all our lives. Our DF died when we were young and either she was a bit wobbly before and it tipped her over or she just was and that was her reasoning.
I've had my fill if her shit down the years but hadn't heard the extremes she'd gone to with DSs. Imagine being so I feel ashamed and guilty that I didn't know. That to think she attacked her ow child because she was having a temper tantrum? . She's in her 80s now and getting worse.
I have a chronic condition and walk with a stick. When she saw me yesterday she laughed and said "here's the disabled lady"
I fucking hate her so much I can't find words. It makes me feel sick. Utterly sick. My contact wit h her has decreased over time but shes been revealed as a complete monster.
I have a therapist and will talk it through with her but to out it in words makes it real because I can't say what I really feel right now.