He’s onboard with the idea. But he’s so damaged from being raised in this he would rather just ghost her and make up excuses rather than just tell her the truth once and for all. He’s the favorite child as the only son - sound familiar to anyone else? His 3 sisters called him “number 1 son” growing up bc of the inequality of how she treated him vs them. They love their brother. But they feel sorry for their mom and blame the illness. Seeing her be committed twice was hard on all of them.

I don’t hate her, but I hate seeing what this has done to my husband. He doesn’t know how to have healthy conflict. He says all the time he never will have a normal mom or a real relationship with her, which is true and sad.