Posted by seldomseen on November 12, 2008, at 6:10:44
In reply to Deneb, posted by Dinah on November 11, 2008, at 15:22:38
Oh sweetie, it's okay.
From reading your posts over the years I know that your family is also very invalidating.
My guess is that in order to receive any kind of comfort or support from them (or just get on the radar screen at all), you had to show up with an extreme sort of crisis.
You may have learned that simply feeling bad is not enough to warrant any kind of attention at all. So you had to kick it up a notch.
Well, Deneb, your feelings matter - no matter what they are. You are a human being. You do not need to kick it up a notch here.
Don't worry, you will get there. I've seen so much progress in your posts. Good lord, not a single one of us is perfect and communicates perfectly all the time. You're working, and damn - this is hard.
Keeping on trucking shining star. It's okay.
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