Posted by boB on April 28, 2000, at 23:30:33
In reply to hello everyone, many thanks...+ reply to Cass, posted by Deb R on April 28, 2000, at 10:39:54
> >So my question for boB and Deb R is, aside from the fact that your mother tried to kill you or kill herself, was the relationship otherwise loving?
boB, here. The mortal danger was not the only threatening part of my maternal relationship. The routine freak-outs were probably worse than the single worst incident of threatening harm. But overall, mom was not demeaning, and she was kind as often or much more often, than she was cruel. My sympathy to others whose childhood was much more horrific. The soft edge to much of the rage I suffered as a child likely protected my from the most pathologically contagious aspects of that kind of behaviour.
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