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Let us no more of what's going on. Are you her caregiver?
Your age, moms age?
Does she have dementia, other health issues?

Not enough information to give a good answer, but I'll tell you what I've been told.

Guilt is an emotion, to feel bad after we did something bad to someone. I suspect you didn't do anything bad. So you have nothing to feel guilty about.


I suspect your mom has done a lot of hurt to you?
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Loving is not a choice. You either love and admire or honor or respect a person or you do not. It isn't a matter you can choose about. It is a "feeling". There is no guilt. You didn't cause it and can't fix it. If you don't love someone, then--as Dr Laura says--just be polite and move on with your life.
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Don't feel guilty. I don't love my husband. It's more like I don't love the demon that seems to taken over his body. I almost left him a few years back when I thought he had just turned into a jerk. Somedays I wish I hadn't been aware that it might be FTD (aka family curse) and left him.
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Lots of people don't really love their parents. There, I've said it. It is, unfortunately, the truth.

It is what it is. You can't make yourself love her. And if she was abusive or neglectful or a bad person overall, there would be something wrong with you if you still loved her and were constantly trying to please her.

It's okay to feel this way.
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Don’t
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Well because you didn't fill out your profile or share any reasons as to why you don't love your mum anymore, other than you put your question under "burnout," there really isn't much any of us can say.
If you are your mums burned out caregiver and thus why your not feeling much love for her, I guess most of us can understand that.
And if you were abused by her in any way shape or form in your younger years, you shouldn't be caring for her anyway, as no child abused by a parent should EVER take on their care. So if that's the case of course there would be no love there, and nothing to feel guilty about.
But I'm just guessing here as you didn't give us much to go on, so hopefully you will fill in the missing details.
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