Well now that I am 23, and I am not her dependent anymore, this shouldn't bother me, but there are a number of things going on. First some background information:
My mother works as an office manager for a well known physician in the Northern NJ area. Gets paid well, works about 35 hours a week, and has all the bells and whistles with her job. Recently though she's been complaining about patients giving her a hard time, and not getting along with the receptionists as well. Even more recently she's been getting into fights with the physician over petty little things that I can't even be bothered to remember. The physician is a family friend of ours so I really do have a very difficult time believing my mother, since she is known to make up stories from time to time.
Fast forward to today, less than two weeks later, when I was woken up at 10 a.m. by my mother banging on my front door (I worked last night too, got home at 5). She moved all her things outside of her and my father's house in a neighboring town. She says that she's sick of it all and wants to divorce my father (who thought that there was nothing wrong with their marriage until today). It really sounds as if she actually had a mental breakdown...
Another issue. I have a brother of who is handicapped and reliant on my parents and their income (my parents are not doing well financially at the moment either, so this comes at the WORST possible time) for support. Medical insurance and basic needs such as food and clothing. Now my brother, my father, nor her have any medical insurance. If you have ever had to live with a handicapped child who is on seizure medication and various others as well, you should realize how serious this issue is. That's not even including my her or my father's medical conditions as well that require constant attention.
I really don't know what to tell her! Part of me wants to support her, but I feel that she actually needs help, and she refuses to talk to me after I told her that she should not have quit her job! Anyone here have something similar happen to them? Any advice will be cordially appreciated.
Just before I was supposed to go away too...



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