At first it was awesome that mom made friends with the next door neighbor. It was good that she someone to talk to rather than the people at work and some of the older neighbors. Mom even lost some weight when taking the dogs out on walks with our neighbor! Which is great! Nothing could go wrong right? Of course it does! It’s been like a year and my mom changed a lot. My mom is really attached to dogs (to the point where she will have conversations with them!) now because our neighbor is attached to her dogs. Every night at 7 my mom HAS to take my dog kato out on a walk with our neighbor makin it so we can’t go out to eat as a family anymore. Because our neighbor makes homemade goodies my mom started to make home made food. Except she would make them for the neighbor or the dogs. My mom is over at our neighbors house every single day. We don’t even have to ask where she is when she isn’t home because we all know that she is at our neighbors. I see my dad more often than my mom and its sad because I only get to see my dad 3 hours a day(not including Saturday and Sunday) and I should see my mom more than that but I don’t because she is with our neighbor. Now, the only words that come out of her mouth is “our neighbor” or “the dogs.” That’s all she talks about. When it snows like today, my mom shovels our neighbors driveway instead of ours. My dad, brother and my cousin who stays with us knows she is neighbor crazy but they won’t say a thing. I try to say something but my mom always brushes it off or ignores me and goes next door to our neighbors. All I want is my old mother back. I’m afraid to tell her how I feel. I know I should but she will get mad. I cry about it a lot. I just want MY mom back!