By Amy Dickinson

Ask Amy: My abusive mom just died and this response touched my soul

By Amy Dickinson | Tribune Content Agency
PUBLISHED: July 22, 2017 at 5:50 am | UPDATED: July 22, 2017 at 12:06 pm

DEAR AMY: When I was growing up, my mother was extremely abusive to my siblings and me. Our father was out of the picture. She put us through hell. She struggled with untreated mental illness and prescription drug addiction, along with other sick behaviors. When we were in our teens it was so bad that social services took us away from her for about a year. She never got better.

I never hid my dislike for my mom from my friends, even as an adult.

She died recently at the age of 91.