Elissa Altman on navigating the Motherland
How We Live Now with Katherine May
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The Importance of Forbearance
I could not show her the same tolerance I really found it very unbearable but actually my husband did not not speaking to her as well and they were estranged when she died so I think that was a kind of untenable relationship. When you're in the throes of it of the manipulation and the acrimony it's very hard to see beyond that, especially if your parents know what your buttons are. That becomes very very toxic and it can be very abusive and often is. But certainly with the passage of time and the benefit of distance have enabled me to see my mother in a very different different way. She takes enormous enormous pleasure in nature even though she doesn't love being outside in
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