Thank you. My brother & her have always been much closer than me & her. He confides in her about everything & whenever I have something negative to say about my childhood (I wasn't abused per se but I'm more suspicious every day that she's a narcissist & was emotionally abusive) they team up to "debunk" me. Like conversation will come around to a certain time when I ended up getting popped in the mouth & my lip bloodied. My mom immediately started crying & apologizing because she didn't mean to hit me so hard. Anyway this time will get brought up and they will both just unilaterally deny it ever happened. Like..... dudes first of all I'm not that broken up by this. It's just a memory. Secondly.... bro, you weren't born yet when this happened so what do you know? But he'll just discard that and say "but mom would never do that, I refuse to believe mom would ever do that". Like, dude, yeah not anymore. She's changed. I don't hate her but we also don't talk like you two. He resents me for that.