My daughter is treating me very badly, help please
My daughter (47) and I (73 tomorrow) get along very well and lovingly most of the time and I'm always there for her, but whenever I'm emotionally upset or depressed she treats me like shit, by which I mean irrational verbal abuse, withdrawing from me and excluding me from family occasions.
This has happened many times over the years since she was a teenager: I've tried to get her to counselling with me to work out what causes her behaviour but she always has excuses not to be involved.
Following the most recent incident over the phone the night before last I'm waking up crying about it, having trouble getting to sleep, feeling sick in the stomach and generally depressed. She knows I have a heart condition and stress causes me to have angina attacks. I should add that when I'm physically ill (eg heart attack, pneumonia etc) she's totally supportive.
I do love her but am faced with the dilemma of distancing myself, which also means not seeing my grand-daughter. The other grandkids are grown up.
It's my birthday lunch on Sunday and I know she'll do her usual thing of pretending nothing has happened, which only makes me angrier, but if I express that I know she'll just leave and take my grand-daughter with her.
Ideas, please!