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The elephant in the room for all with abusive relatives
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<blockquote data-quote="Scent of Cedar *" data-source="post: 640854" data-attributes="member: 17461"><p>MWM, there was a time when we believed our families' way of seeing the world was legitimate. We believed that who they needed us to be for them took precedence over who we needed to be, for ourselves.</p><p></p><p>That is over.</p><p></p><p>Our families don't know what to make of us now, because we are no longer looking the other way when they say or do something inappropriate. Because we are no longer overlooking the wrongnesses, we do not carry the shame of the things they have believed were true. Not about us, and not about them. </p><p></p><p>It's like the elephant in the room turned out to be strong and wise and friendly and warm, once we befriended it. Once we stopped being afraid of it, it told us true things.</p><p></p><p>And we were free.</p><p></p><p>Cedar</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scent of Cedar *, post: 640854, member: 17461"] MWM, there was a time when we believed our families' way of seeing the world was legitimate. We believed that who they needed us to be for them took precedence over who we needed to be, for ourselves. That is over. Our families don't know what to make of us now, because we are no longer looking the other way when they say or do something inappropriate. Because we are no longer overlooking the wrongnesses, we do not carry the shame of the things they have believed were true. Not about us, and not about them. It's like the elephant in the room turned out to be strong and wise and friendly and warm, once we befriended it. Once we stopped being afraid of it, it told us true things. And we were free. Cedar [/QUOTE]
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