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Asking Eric: My Brother Is Causing Our Mom to Die of a Broken Heart
An adult daughter seeks ways to comfort her mother after her brother severed contact, causing emotional distress and potential medical risks for their elderly parents.
- Recently, the letter-writer reports her estranged brother cut their infirm elderly parents out of his life and blocked contact and access to his property.
- Family members point to possible motives including the mother's cognitive decline and a recent fall at the brother's house that may have broken her neck, while parents had long supported the brother financially.
- Multiple reconciliation attempts failed, as Daughter sent postcards, texts, a vulnerable letter, and asked other family members who were asked to get involved while Mother trembles, cannot eat, and is 'literally dying of a broken heart.'
- The columnist advised sitting with the mother to grieve together, showing love and listening, considering a family therapist if mother has capacity, and consulting R. Eric Thomas, Asking Eric advice columnist for more support.
- Facing possible neurosurgery, the family notes the parents built their lives around their children, making the brother's rejection especially painful and straining the family.
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Asking Eric: Daughter struggles as brother cuts off ailing elderly parents
Dear Eric: My infirm 83-year-old parents (stroke, blindness and memory issues) live with my husband and me. My parents built their lives around their children and grandchildren, personally and financially. Mom was their free full-time daycare until graduation. My parents also paid for my brother’s house in cash. Family is Mom’s reason for living.
·Alabama, United States
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