My Mother Doesn’t Want Anything to Do With Me

Reader’s Question

Hi. Would you be able to help me? I am 35 years old, and my mother doesn’t talk to me or want anything to do with me. I have been living on the streets since I was 8, living with my brothers. The thing is my other brother, stepbrothers, and stepsisters she (my mother) can’t do enough for. I have had a child who died when he was 2 years 7 months, and now I have another child who is 4 and a half years old. I don’t know who I am, what to do, or where to go — and its like no one wants to know me because I don’t live near them. What should I do? Thanks.

Our Consulting Clinical Psychologist’s Reply

I’d recommend stabilizing your life. Become stable in terms of a place to live, work, and be safe. This may require help from community agencies/programs, mental health professionals, friends, or family. Once you are in a stable lifestyle, you can then begin contacting your brothers and sisters and develop a relationship with them. When those relationships become loving and healthy, you may find that your mother will accept contact with you. If you’ve been living on the streets or with siblings since the age of 8, some very difficult things must have happened in your family. For this reason, everyone will be very shy and apprehensive about forming normal family relationships.

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