Dear Eric: My father passed from cancer in 2020. He and my mother were married for 53 years. One year later, my only sibling died suddenly from a massive heart attack. So, it’s just my mother and I left. We have never had a good relationship. Very tense, lots of jealousy (her, not me).

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Dear Eric: My father passed from cancer in 2020. He and my mother were married for 53 years. One year later, my only sibling died suddenly from a massive heart attack. So, it’s just my mother and I left. We have never had a good relationship. Very tense, lots of jealousy (her, not me). Both my parents were very close to my children growing up. Since my dad and brother have passed, my mom is increasingly mean, angry, rude and spreads rumors about…

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Asking Eric: After family deaths, mother gets meaner and spreads lies

Dear Eric: My father passed from cancer in 2020. He and my mother were married for 53 years. One year later, my only sibling died suddenly from a massive heart attack. So, it’s just my mother and I left. We have never had a good relationship. Very tense, lots of jealousy (her, not me).Both my parents were very close to my children growing up. Since my dad and brother have passed, my mom is increasingly mean, angry, rude and spreads rumors about …

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Asking Eric: After losing other relatives, my mother spreads lies about me

Dear Eric: My father passed from cancer in 2020. He and my mother were married for 53 years. One year later, my only sibling died suddenly from a massive heart attack. So, it’s just my mother and me left. We…

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After family deaths, mom gets meaner, spreads lies

Dear Eric: Regarding “Lost Reference”, a letter written by someone who had a supervisor ghost on a reference for a second job: There is another and quite likely reason the supervisor did not send a reference for her employee. She feared the employee would do so well at his part-time job that the new employer would offer the employee a full-time job and she would lose her great employee. A young employee with few employer references can use a for…

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Asking Eric: Is my mom’s grief causing her disturbing behavior?

Advice columnist R. Eric Thomas answers his readers' questions in this December 24, 2024 edition of Asking Eric.

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I am at a place where I am no longer willing to allow her to disturb my peace. My question is, as her only living child, am I wrong?

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Asking Eric: Since my dad and brother passed away, my mother has been increasingly mean, angry and rude

Asking Eric: Is my mom’s grief causing her disturbing behavior?

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