Why Does My Mom Always Change the Subject and Talk About What She Wants To Talk About? Vol. 536, Feb. 13, 2020
This was a question that was asked by a Quoran, and one that many of my clients ask, regardless of their age. Here is how I answered it:
It is because your mother lacks the ability to care about what you have to say, generally because she is self-involved.
Unfortunately, the chronological age of a person doesn’t always match their emotional stage of development. I would say your mom is stuck at teenhood emotionally, and therefore the world revolves around her.
I don’t know if she has any mental health issues, but these most certainly get in the way of natural emotional maturation.
The best way to deal with this is to just acknowledge the fact that your mom will never be able to talk to you in a way that fulfills your need for a caring and mature mother and find others in your life who can fill that role.
I know in my case, my mom was so damaged by her mother that she was about 2 years old emotionally, manipulating people to always have her way. If she didn’t get her way, she would go into fits of rage. She was super intelligent, caring when it was something she cared about, yet infantile when she didn’t get her way.
Interestingly enough, through being raised by her (and we were close up till I was 18 years old), she taught me many important things in how to work with people with mental illness. I never confused her behavior with who she was, though it did become increasingly difficult to spend time with her. I cut her out of my life for about seven years because of her abuse toward me. However, quite miraculously I was there for the last 10 days of her life. I can’t say I had sweet loving feelings for her, but I was glad she had 3 of her 5 daughters and the two spouses there by her side when she passed away.
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