I would love to add some quotes to this list...
Quote: I've worked your whole life for you and I to have a good relationship.
Fact: Her definition of good is one where I adore her, worship her advice and take it without question, never think for myself and never think of myself.
Quote: I left your father so you wouldn't have to be treated badly.
Fact: He left her. He asked for the divorce. He said he left her because I was making the environment difficult for him. She actually asked me to be nice to him so he would come back (This is the sexually abusive father by the way).
Quote: I only wanted you and your brother to be well adjusted.
Fact: She raised us in the house with a drug using, alcohol abusing, paranoid schizophrenic. Hmmm, wonder why we aren't well adjusted??
Quote: You only dreamed that
Fact: I wish to god I had only dreamed it.
Quote: My mother was abusive and I went out of my way not to abuse you and your brother.
Fact: She did not abuse my brother. I am a different story.
Quote: I didn't know what paranoid schizophrenia meant.
Fact: She did know that he heard voices, did drugs, drank heavily, and talked on the phone to people who were not there. She did know that he was dangerous because she often had to wake us up in the middle of the night to go to a hotel. Otherwise, we were all in danger.
Quote: I didn't know you were being abused.
Fact: She may not have known I was being raped, but she knew about all the other stuff.
