u/Dizzy-Door4797

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Should I go no contact with my MIL

This will be long so sorry but you need the backstory to understand this. My husband(43m) and I (41f)moved in with my MIL (61f) ten years ago. We originally planned to be here for a few months to get her medications in order and to help her with her case for disability (Diabetes, heart attack and bipolar) . We done most of the care for the house and paid for all the utilities and the house payments.

We moved out four years ago because she was getting physically and verbally violent with my daughters (18 and 17 now) and refused to actually take her medication on any type of schedule so was irrational and manipulative. We got our daughters into therapy and both have been diagnosed with PTSD from their time dealing with her.

Now she is living in her house with my husband's brother and I am still mostly responsible for taking her to her appointments and my husband is taking care of her lawn because my BIL works two jobs. She has been wanting us to go mow but every free day I have has the past two weeks there has been rain and her yard is swampy when it rains. We told her the next dry day we will come over and she started blowing up all four of our phones. She is demanding my youngest daughter come cook her food, my oldest come clean her bedroom (claiming she can't walk), and me and my husband come take care of the lawn. The calls have gotten so bad my oldest daughter is having panic attacks when she sees her calling.

I want to go no contact but I know if I do my husband will too and this is his only parent. I have family that lives a few hours away and we are close so I worry about cutting him off from his only family. So do you think I should cut contact or do you think I should try to work with her?

TLDR MIL is calling so much it is causing my children panic attacks and demanding us work for her

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u/Dizzy-Door4797 — 20 hours ago