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I know a woman like her mother. She has crippled her own children and made them all dependent on her entirely. Her oldest is in his 40s now.
She made a junkie out of him when he was a preteen. She’d send him out to sell her oxycodone. “If you don’t get at least 40 of these sold I won’t give you any and you’ll have to deal with that.”
That only worked for so long until he started stealing them all. He’s been in and out of jail. “What would you do without mommy? Who would bail you out?” Of course she still supplies his habit enough to keep him dependent and takes only what she needs to take to have them in her system for a doctors visit.
She told the next kid she was schizophrenic. Had her on meds and totally dependent. Once her daughter had a son, she convinced her to sign over her rights and let her go. Her son thinks she’s his sister. Now she’s the “bad kid who ran off and left us to fend for ourselves.”
Her third child was a brilliant kid, super intelligent, but he’s been convinced he has schizophrenia too. He’s in his 30s now and had lost all of his teeth by 25. Still lives with mom and she won’t let him out of her sight. He’s also a junkie who is supplied entirely by her.
The grandson was twice as smart as her last kid. He could’ve been anything he wanted to be. Instead, he’s “schizophrenic” too and entirely dependent on his grandma. High functioning autistic, maybe. Schizophrenic, no fucking way.
It breaks my heart thinking about them.
The oldest is an insanely talented guitarist, but he’s a slave to his mother and never had a chance to be anything but what she wanted.
I would bet the daughter ends up living back at home too if she isn’t already.
Their father died from cancer when they were very young and she just lost it and did everything she could, the wrong way, to keep them close.