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Why is everyone against me living with my absent mother?

So my mother abandoned me when I was a child and she never calls to see how we’re doing. My family has been trying to get me to stop contacting her for years but they tell I’m so stubborn to listen and stop fighting with them. I’m sick of being called out all the times. I haven’t seen my mom since I was 8 and we wound write to each other sometimes. She never answers the phone when I call her, never thanks me for the gifts I sent her and wasn’t there for my first period, date, day of high school at all. She wasn’t at my high school graduation after I invited her. My dad is so angry at me for calling her and always took my phone and deleted her number. He doesn’t think I’m ready to see my mother because I don’t take criticism or the truth well. Says the man that refuse to let me live with my mother or talk to her. I’m 18! Not 13. I haven’t seen her since I was 8 so about 10 years! My mom invited me to live with her and I was thrilled, but I’m not so sure if she really meant that. My best friend reminded me about the woman that walked out on her family without saying anything. My mom didn’t just leave but they aren’t buying it and says I’m in denial. She don’t support my choice of wanting to live with her. She said, “There’s something I just don’t understand and I’m not trying to be rude. Why would you wanna stay with a woman that made it clear that she doesn’t love you?” That really stung me…😳
Then she said, “She wants nothing to do with you so what’s the point of living with her when she will just leave you again and getting hurt again?” She doesn’t understand. I want my mother.

Why is everyone against me living with my absent mother?
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