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Like BarbBrooklyn said below no one can make you feel guilty unless you let them, so quit giving your mom that power.
You're a grown ass woman now so start acting like one and start putting mom in her place.
And for crying out loud quit wasting your PTO time on taking mom to her doctors appointments. She can hire someone else to do that or just call an Uber driver to take her.
And unlike BarbBrooklyn and waytomisery's advice about perhaps having mom move into an assisted living facility near you if and when the time comes, I would say...count your blessings that you're 3.5 hours away and keep it that way or move farther away.
If mom needs an assisted living facility some day she can find one in the city where she's currently living. You are NOT responsible for your mom or her care.
She's made her choices so let her live with them.
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waytomisery Oct 2023
@funky ,

I thought of that as well . She doesn’t have to bring mom to an assisted living near her . I said maybe. I should have added to try not do it if Mom was still being difficult . In fact we are not bringing my MIL near us if possible . Not sure yet what we will do if she asks to move closer to us 😬. We would like to keep the 4 hour buffer .
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Don’t take time off from work . Tell your mother to hire someone to take her to all her appointments . Your mother is making the choice to remain living where she is. She has to deal with what that entails .

As far as the guilt trips . “ Sorry Mom I have to work”. You should not upend your life . You should not be the one to move from where you live.

I think living 3.5 hours away from your mother may be a good thing for you at least for now . It helps maintain boundaries .

Do not move in with her or have her live with you . She is the type that will want you to be obedient and do what she wants when she wants . Maybe when she needs more help , assisted living near you would be an option .
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No one can make you feel guilty unless you allow them to.

It's very sad that your mother is so self-centered and unable to see you as a separate adult human being with the need to support herself.

If your mother refuses to move, then it's on HER to make other arrangements for her own care.

It sounds like a nice Assisted Living place in your city would be a good option.
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"I do take my PTO to drive 3.5 hrs to take her to major medical apts another hour away and 3.5 hrs home. It's a minimum of two days PTO."

Stop doing this. Your mother made her choice and now she will have to live with said choice. It is not your responsibility to take 2 days off to take her to these appointments. Does that sound harsh? Maybe, but your mother doesn't get to call the shots here. She wants to do what she wants to do and that does not mean you jump when she calls. Obviously she can hire someone to go to these appointments and that is what she needs to do from this point forward.

And whatever you do, please do not move into her home and do not move her into your home.

"She guilts me by saying that she took care of me as a child and young adult so now I should take care of her."

Here's the thing about this when you were a child and a young adult you had to listen to what your mother said. She made rules and you had to follow them. If back then your parents had said we're moving then you would have had to move with them. You had no choice or say so in the matter.

Tell your mother if she would like you to treat her like the child you once were then you are more than happy to accommodate her with doing so. That means she will need to move close to you and you get to make ALL the rules and she has to comply with said rules, just like a child.

If she doesn't want to be treated like a child, she needs to stop bringing it up about caring for you when you were a child because it holds no weight with you about the game she is trying to play to get her way and ruin your life and financial future in the process.

And to add: Parents are supposed to take care of and love and nurture their children. It's their freaking job and no you don't get credit for being a decent human being to your own children. There are no special accolades for a parent actually doing what they are supposed to do. Children don't owe their parents anything for that.

Sure there are crappy parents who don't even do that for their children but those people are mentally defective humans who should be forcibly sterilized so they can never bring another child into the world to neglect and abuse.
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lkdrymom Oct 2023
Good answer on treating her like a child and getting to call all the shot. This is what I would do next time she brings it up “MOM STOP! If you don’t stop this guilt trip of me throwing away my life to move in and care for you I will hang up the phone “. And then do it. Every time.
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