Considering moving away from toxic family with my DH and our twin babies.
My mother is very controlling and selfish. I’ve received hardly any help from her since babies arrived yet she wants to come and see them for the fun activities such as baby groups. My father hasn’t helped and my sister doesn’t bother to message and see how we are. It’s always been toxic - my mum is a very unhappy women and has nothing nice to say about anyone. To give you some more background - she called me ugly when I was a child and made me feel resented. She was disinterested in parenting and very lazy with my sister and I. Parents would often fight around us and had an awful relationship. I want the total opposite for my girls.
My question is, to others who have moved away from toxic family, did it help? My worry is that we’ll have to see more of them when they visit as they will stay for days rather than hours at a time. We are considering Dubai.