My mother says she'll disinherit me unless I split with my partner. What should I do?

The article discusses the writer's complicated relationship with their mother, who has used emotional manipulation and financial threats to control them. This is reflected in the mother's coercive tactics, such as threatening to cut the writer out of her will if their partner remains estranged. The piece suggests that familial relationships can embody similar abusive dynamics as partner relationships. The writer struggles with the idea of walking away from family but recognizes the manipulative behavior and the impact on their own family life.

Walking away from family is never easy; it's rarely The End. If this relationship were between partners we would categorise it, quite correctly, as coercive and abusive.

Your mother is using her money as a way of very effectively controlling you. The thing is, this will never provide the happiness or fulfillment.

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