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And our first story comes from Psycho Racks the Lost.

My 29 female uncle 60s male is telling everyone I'm lying about getting my bachelor's degree because I refused his offer to buy my cap and gown.

How do I set boundaries with them about this?

Okay, so here's the story. I've been in a very tenuous, sporadic contact with my extended family

since I was 18. This is primarily due to the fact that I often didn't have a phone during this time,

for reasons we will discuss later. But also due to the fact

that my relationship with them has been strained for most of my life now. My mother is a

schizophrenic and has lightly displayed symptoms since before I was born, though she wasn't

diagnosed until I was about 15. She was misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder and PTSD.

As a result, my mother made a lot of, shall we say, questionable life choices.

She never did anything illegal and never directly abused me,

but she got into some shady romantic relationships, made some bad decisions with regards to her work life,

ended up in a lot of debt and just generally made a mess of her life and the lives of everyone around her. My extended relatives aren't on speaking terms

with my mother, and while they do seem to care about me in some small way, they also project

many of their issues with her onto me, and have treated me sort of badly because of it.

I've learned that cordial distance is the best way to deal with them.

Unfortunately, my mother decided she didn't want to burden me with her care.

And so she impulsively eloped with someone she'd been dating for all of two months.

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