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Asking Eric: How Do I Deal with My Elderly Mother’s Increasing Rambling?
Advice columnist R. Eric Thomas suggests steering conversations and using brief avoidance to handle daily rambling calls from elderly mothers who seek connection.
- Facing daily calls and a longstanding invitation rift, the reader sought guidance about her 84-year-old mother's frequent rambling and her brother-in-law stopping invitations a few years ago.
- The mother's active social circle helps explain why her calls are long and detailed, as the reader's mother, age 84, speaks daily about people her friends know .
- Columnist R. Eric Thomas, advice columnist , suggests the reader steer her 84-year-old mother's calls with leading questions and express enjoyment to ease frustration.
- The columnist suggests either a direct conversation with the brother-in-law or letting the husband invite his sibling, warning that an unyielding refusal will harm the marriage as her husband insists on inviting his only sibling.
- Short of agreement, the reader reports being exhausted by repeated arguments and sometimes copes with her 84-year-old mother's long calls by reading or pulling the phone away.
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News & RecordElderly mother's constant rambling tests patience
Dear Eric: I love my mother dearly but at 84 she has reached the point of rambling. She is still fully in control of her capabilities and is mentally acute, but her conversations are now filled with details about friends…
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Asking Eric: Mother’s rambling tests patience
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