Dear Katherine:
To understand better I ask:
1. Can you give a couple of examples of absurd things she asked you to do for her that she can easily do for herself?
2. How does she manipulate you to do things for her, what does she actually say, an example or two?
3. You wrote: “I always refuse her help because it feels like she’s just helping me so that I would help her next time. And then I feel like she’s using me when she asks for help”- do you feel this way about other people (family members included, a parent maybe), that they give you or help you so that you give or help them back/ using you?
Or has a parent complain to you that other people are using her a lot, giving so to take and such?
anita