My father called and told me that he was communicating with a woman who met online back and forth who did not have a profile picture, but he continued nonetheless. After a few exchanges, the woman sent him a nasty message detailing their marriage and the ultimate ending of our family life together calling him a fraud and a joke among other things. It was obvious that the woman was my mother who created a fake account on this free dating service to ?reel in? my father and then tear him down. Just the previous weekend she told me that she had done this to a man who she was communicating with online who suddenly stopped contacting her after one phone call, she then went on to detail how she created a fake account with everything he liked and then contacted him. She said this so regularly as if it were a normal thing to do; I am guessing that because she was successful in getting this guy to take her bait that she thought she would take it a step further when she noticed my father?s profile. I?m starting to worry about her, she exhibited extreme emotional distress, amplified by ?the changes of life? during and after the divorce but she continues to blame her failures in life on this, although traumatic, event which has been over for at least 7 years. While I understand that she has to want to help herself, my sister and I plan on having an intervention of sorts to try and talk to her about her recent actions. She works for a hospital and has very good medical coverage, I would like for her to begin seeing a counselor again but she has shown resistance in the past although she was making incredible strides when she was attending sessions. Are there certain approaches that I should use in talking to her?
