 (Nick Galifianakis for The Post) | Adapted from an online discussion. Hi, Carolyn: I've come to realize over the past few years how obsessed my mom has become with weight. None of us are skinny in the family in the slightest, but we're also not obese. When I was on the phone with her a few nights ago, she told me how relieved she was that my brother was going to be going back in to work because he "wasn't moving around and was probably eating too much" and something along the lines of he probably gained weight during quarantine. My brother is almost 30. This is a COMMON topic for my mom to express to me. What can I say to make her stop? I know this is about her and her anxieties about her own weight, but seriously, my grown-up brother doesn't need his mother badmouthing him to his sibling. And I also am sick of how negative she is about other people's bodies because I know that's how she talks to herself. And I know this because the way I talked about other people's bodies was how I (mostly) used to talk to myself about mine. — Sick of It | 
