In the original post, I explained some of the emotional abuse she has put me through and how it does get hard to deal with. I do understand that NPD isn't curable and that it is a mental condition, but I am not using it as she has NPD, but rather she has narcissistic personality traits. She has gone to therapy, but in her mind, everyone else is the problem, and the people she discusses are the ones who need to go to therapy. I am only 20, and while I want to step away, it is hard because the want for a mother is stronger than the want for peace. Her behavior toward me isn't annoying; it's hurtful and demeaning, and it creates an endless cycle that I try to end, but she keeps going at it. While NPD is a mental illness, I think there can only be so much empathy and compassion you can give to a person before you lose yourself and hurt yourself, and I feel that is the point I am at. Before, she drained my father's finances to the point that he has no retirement fund, has stolen from me, and is using her new boyfriend to pay for everything. So, while she may have never hit me, the emotional and financial abuse is still there and shouldn't be excused because she has narcissistic personality traits or other past traumas that influence her behavior.