It wasn't because she wouldn't let her sons read a personal email. It's because they did read an email. Of course reading someone's personal correspondence is an invasion of privacy, but it sounds like something is seriously not right here, and that there must have been something seriously damning in its contents.

This has been one of the most therapeutic pieces I have read in a long time. My sister and I are estranged from our mother and when people hear of this they usually paint us as spoiled children. "But that's your MOTHER!" they say. No matter that she was and is an abusive psycho who both my sister and I tried our…

Literally my whole life was feeling responsible for my parent's feelings. It's horrible and it's only in the past year that I've been able to actually disengage from it, but it's guilt like no other.

WHY are we quoting Emily Yoffe?? On ANYTHING?!

"A common story among parents who have estranged adult children is how much they had focused on their children, how much they did to make sure their children had all the best advantages, made them the center of the family universe — and often how they treated them more like an equal or an adult than a child.
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To start off, I'm a family counselor. It influences every story of every family I hear, although I try my best to turn it off when not working with clients. That being said...

"A common story among parents who have estranged adult children is how much they had focused on their children, how much they did to make sure…

Oh yeah. I've seen it happen over and over. I mean as an adult I get that there are three sides to every story: Mine, yours and the truth - but the angry self - righteousness of people who physically abused me and literally abandoned me (as opposed to the equally sucky emotional abandonment) makes flames grow out of…

Vagnoni is 56, a few years older than I am (I'm at the boom's end.). When she writes about the ideas boomers have about how parents should be treated, I have to laugh. Boomers treated their parents like garbage. They had tons of advantages. The kind no group before or since had.

My kids disowned me because I praised them too much? Is that seriously what she's claiming?

Especially since they are both estranged from her. I could understand if it was just one (she doesn't approve of his lifestyle/religion/whatever), but both? There's something fishy there and I don't think the stink comes from the kids' side.

I think sometimes abusive parents have a tendency to believe the lies they've told themselves about how wonderful their children's childhoods were. Particularly if their children turned out to be decent adults.

OH, FOR...

The only thing I took away from this is I never noticed (or cared) that these two women share the same initials just reversed. Why don't the tabs ever question if Goopy or Juliette Lewis are pissed at Ang. If I was Juliette I'd be all back off bitches I'm The OG of Pitt women. He made a better movie with JL then his…

Seriously, and not for nothing but most people I know manage to find nice things to say about Jen AND Angelina, because they are both talented women and good people and they're both super-pretty and blarrggggh. This "team" nonsense is for Yahoo commenters.

Huh. I walked home further than that distance every school day that was reasonably warm when I was 10 and my sister was 5. Granted, I didn't grow up in Washington, D.C.

the problem isn't ebay sellers, its morons who buy $50 dresses from Chinese sweatshops & expect it to look like dior. there are plenty of good/honest sellers on ebay who are selling non knockoff merchandise but everybody wants the $10 couture instead

While I have no interest in the movie and passed on the book based on this glorious Good Reads review* I do respect their marketing.

Hey ladies... I've been selling on eBay for 2 years, and here in Los Angeles I do some down-and-dirty thrift shopping... I live in a pretty nice neighborhood, and my local thrift stores often have some gorgeous second hand evening and bridal gowns!!! I actually found a Marchesa Notte red silk chiffon gown for $7.99 I…

I'm confused - are you saying it is bad that the attorneys who represent the indigent make six figure salaries? Like, they should make less than other lawyers do on average? Because to me this sounds like a better system than most. Too many public defenders are working 100 hours/week for $50k (or less!). They deserve…

"The bastard never saw it coming."