Instruction manuel for parents of adult children; A follow-up

Last week I posted a blog about the amount of involvement that is appropriate for a parent and her adult child. This was of course a humorous narrative of my own experience with my mother thinly veiled behind hypothetical characterizations. It was fun, and it was theraputic but i did have one critic, my own brother aka Stark effects.

TO MY ONE CRITIC

I understand that you don't at all understand my relationship with my mother. I would like to emphasize the "my" here to illustrate to you that I actually do have a different mother than you. I am aware that she looks the same and has the same haircut (in fact the same as it was when you were just a little baby), however the dynamics of a relationship between a mother and her male children and the dynamics of a relationship between a mother and her female children are completely different. And in this case much more dysfunctional.

Also I don't really agree with your implication that I am manipulative or that I am some kind of "trickster". There is no real point in even trying to out-manipulate a master-manipulater and that is precisely why I don't try. You have been misinformed if you think otherwise.

It also seems, from your comments, that you believe me to be a narccisist. Because I'm attempting to have a life and identity of my own? Sorry you feel that way.

In a nut shell, you don't know me.
But thanks for playing.