Sorry I'm late to this commenting party.
I take no offense to your previous comment; I just was clarifying why my case was a bit different. I'm totally okay with it.
You want to give your parents the benefit of the doubt. The therapist I was going to tried to tell me that my mom acts the way she does because she didn't get what she needed from her parents as a child (I asked her if it was wrong for me to hate her for the shit childhood and her manipulating narcissistic behaviors). I can see what she means, but growing up with her and my dad (who was emotionally absent and a raging alcoholic) has been hell.
Hell she didn't talk to me for 8 months because she didn't like the location our wedding venue was at (it was a 45 minute drive for her; hardly a destination wedding).
I want to sympathize with her as someone who has struggles and unfulfilled needs met in childhood, but it's hard when you still have to deal with the person who hasn't changed at all...and the chain continues I guess until I end it.