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Input: I’ll try to make this as short as possible without giving you my life story.

My mother was emotionally (and slightly physically) abusive towards me (25f) growing up. She’d call me names (loser, bitch, c*nt) and yell “f*ck you” to me for making small mistakes, even after I made an effort to fix them. She also ignored me (sometimes for days) after we got into fights and never went out of her way to apologize. Here are some specific examples of things she’d do to me:
- The night before I moved into college (20 minutes away from home) I came home late and she got pissed. This led to her not helping me move in my dorm like we had planned. I had to call a friend and help instead.
- She got pissed over something (I forget what) and she threw my French horn against the wall of the living room, so hard that she dented it. She then made me practice it afterwards. 

This has led to low self esteem and a high sense of perfectionism in my adulthood. 

I live 10 hours away from her now. She was diagnosed with cancer last year, and has gotten surgery and chemo treatments since then. I think she’s still getting chemo. 
I get all this information from my dad because I haven’t talked to her in 6 months. I’ve been going to therapy to try and figure out the best way to approach our relationship. 

I feel bad that she’s been sick and that I haven’t talked to her at all, not even a phone call, to see how she’s doing. But talking to her is awful for my mental health. She just sent me an email this morning asking if we can start talking again. She apologized for “whatever she did to make me stop talking to her” but the thing is, I did already tell her (multiple times) why I was angry at her. She should know by now. 

AITA for still not wanting to talk to my mom, though she has cancer and seemingly wants to make amends? 

wanting to cut ties with my abusive mother, even though she has cancer