Wow, it's so easy to have your feelings hurt.

I think it hurts a lot worse when it comes from someone closet to you.

I read a question and answer recently, and it really has stuck in my mind.

A woman had wrote in because she was feeling guilt.

As a child, her mother had belittled her and insulted her constantly. She was always extremely critical, and she would fly off in a rage over anything.

So now, her mother is elderly and the daughter feels guilty because she is trying to distance herself. But the mother will call constantly on the phone and leave hateful messages.

That is such a tough situation. So the daughter doesn't want to totally wash her hands of her mom, but she wants to have space.

In my opinion, I don't see how she put up with her mother that long. I can only imagine how hard it is for her. And for other people as well. This is not an uncommon situation.

The adviser told her to tell her mother that she would talk to her twice a week. And stick with it. She said when her mom called leaving hateful messages to lower down the volume. And she said if her mother started insulting her while she was on the phone for her to say she doesn't like to be spoke to in that type of manner and hang up.

The daughter has had emotional problems all of her life because of her mother. I can only imagine how hard it was to try to get though that.