Originally Posted by
dollydo 
And dbh, I agree with your conclusion about roles being randomly assigned, actually I often feel like I am a bit player in a ongoing saga/soap opera, my mother is the star, I am an extra.
Thanks for your post!
That's EXACTLY how I feel too!
I have minimal contact with the members of my family of origin now. We still keep in touch, but I no longer have the daily/hourly contact that I use to have.
When they try to pull me back into the system, I think to myself that I'm no longer interested in being an actor in THAT play ;-)
db