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I would be surprised if you were NOT resentful!
Tell mom that you are not going to tolerate it any longer.
If you and your husband are belittled at any time, any place LEAVE if you are out with her you can get up and leave and she can call a cab OR you can tell her that she needs to get her jacket and you will take her home. Drop her off and go back to where you were or go home. If she refuses to get her jacket and leave with you leave her and she can call a cab.
If she starts complaining when you are out with her, do the same thing.
Back off the time with her. There is no reason that you need to have her with you and there is no need that she has to be with you. BOUNDARIES. A very important thing to learn as a caregiver and in your case with a person that demands attention.
Giving birth to you didn’t give her life rights to your perpetual service.
Healthy caregiving is a two way street, not a dead end alley. You’re not getting much if anything in return.
We explained to an agency that our LO was the most unpleasant being alive, and we were sent a delightful Mary Poppins who didn’t care a bit that LO was a tiny shark. Don’t hold back- TELL THAT AIDE WHAT SHE (OR HE) WILL NEED TO DEAL WITH. THEN, tell mama that the aide will not leave, as per your instructions.
The YOU LEAVE, for a peaceful afternoon of whatever pleases you the most.
Take back the time you so richly deserve.
You need to say "No" to her demands and stop being her "slave". That is not abandoning her, She will be angry and probably manipulative and work to make you feel guilty, but you don't have to buy into that, You are entitled to boundaries that protect you and your family from this emotional abuse.
Therapy and/or reading books such as the Cloud and Townsend "Boundaries" could help you. You don't need to live like this.
My MIL has chased away every single person in her life, including 2/3 of her kids, ALL her neighbors and ALL the 'family'. I walked out on her almost a year ago and told her I couldn't deal with her and would never see her nor help her again. Very freeing.
She allows SIL to do everything for her--and expects it too.
Toxic personality traits can and will push well meaning people away and out of your life right about the time you need them most.
SIL will NEVER EVER quit caring for her mom. She resents it horribly, but there literally is NO ONE left who would take MIL on.
Of course I would likely have done this decades ago, and I never would have suggested she move near me. The best place for blood relatives of this ilk is 1,000s of miles away.
It's up to you. You know who she is. You know she won't change. Now it is up to you to decide how much time you CHOOSE to devote to her.
And I hope there will NEVER be any consideration of moving her in with family. If so I will consider that to be shooting ones own foot out from under one.
Limit your contact with her toxicity, and look into getting her placed into Independent Senior Living or Assisted Living, as her needs increase. She will then pay others to be her entertainment and listen to her chronic complaining, as my mother does. I speak to my mother once daily on the phone, and see her once a week via a window visit at her Memory Care AL. The activities staff at her MC is her entertainment committee, not me.
Good luck!
You owe her nothing in the form of CG. Hire aides to come in a few times a week. Hire housekeepers if she can afford it. Grocery shop online and have it delivered.
There's nothing you do that cannot be done by someone else.
Talk to mom first and tell her how things are going to be. She abuses YOU because she KNOWS you aren't going anywhere.
If she is going to act like a child, then treat her like one.
You CAN step out of her life and create one of your own where you see her when you want. You are under NO obligation to stand and take what is basically abuse.
She'll be mad, but she's mad anyway.
I frankly don't see a way you can continue to care for her when she is constantly shooting herself and you in the foot.
And what is she teaching your kids? That being a pain will make people do things for you? That's no kind of life.