Is it normal or am i being selfish?

My Aunt and Uncle are having marital problems and my Aunt is constantly complaining to me about her husband and her depression (which go hand in hand). I am 20 years old and my Aunt is 47 and she has been doing this from the time I was 18. I really feel that she needs to take responsibility for her depression and marriage and quit laying her problems on me because I do not have nearly the life experience to properly interpret what she is saying...

I'm serious. She constantly gives me the business about her depression and her marriage and I know that she is just venting, but she claims that she wants help and she says that because of her depression, she has no motivation to get help. I WANT to help her and I have TRIED, but really it just ends with me doing all of her housework for her as she sits on her can and complains some more.

I have really done everything I could have thought of doing, and I am very bitter that she (willingly or not) put me in the situation in which I am presented with this hopeless situation and I can do nothing to mend it, no matter how hard I try. My family has this way of doing this to me (my parents did the same when they got divorced and I was the "pawn" so to speak), and I am so fed up with it that I do not even like entering that house. It makes me so miserable to hear that she is so miserable but I can do nothing to help and she won't help herself. I want to remove myself from this seemingly toxic situation...

Are my feelings normal, or am I being selfish and I need to keep being the proverbial "shoulder to cry on"...
Is it appropriate for a middle-aged adult to lay these issues on me?

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Based on 27 votes (15 yes)
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Comments ( 4 )
  • Lucyg123

    Srry but your not her therapist
    Give her clues get her vist a to therapist for any giving holidaY you celebrate

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    • NeuroNeptunian

      That's been the family effort. She sees them but she refuses to go back when they tell her something she doesn't like.

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  • Faceless

    Umm... Most assholes will tell you to move out but why hasnt that crossed your mind already and shit, you know? Sounds like your aunt doesnt have alot of shoulders to cry on so, make a scarecrow that looks like you and put it at the dinner table for her to vent on, and go live your life. In all seriousness just look out for #1. And thats you.

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    • NeuroNeptunian

      I am moving out, just gotta rebuild my savings first, which should take a few weeks...

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