Posted by AuntieMel on November 19, 2005, at 16:05:42
In reply to Re: Antigua - how are you doing?, posted by antigua on November 18, 2005, at 12:58:51
Abusive parents - an awful thing to deal with, I know from experience.
But - with therapy you have admitted to *yourself* that she was abusive. Congratulations! In that realization, you have gone a huge way towards taking that power away from her.
You can't change her, so you are left with changing how you react to her. No matter what she does, you can just remind yourself that it's her problem, not yours. That's power, real and tangiable power.
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