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<blockquote data-quote="Scent of Cedar *" data-source="post: 643597" data-attributes="member: 17461"><p>Those challenges have made you very strong. That comes through clearly here on the site, especially as you have unraveled the toxicity in your family of origin and clarified what was really happening around you. I appreciate your honesty about how all that felt. I was talking to difficult child daughter about what it was like for her as an adolescent, and it nearly broke my heart to hear it. She described that same unreasoning kind of fear, and she described too feeling that she didn't fit in anywhere, and that she wasn't popular. It looked so different from my point of view ~ difficult child daughter seemed to be such a little rebel. She has friends who are loyal to her to this day. It must have so much to do with how we interpret what is happening to us.</p><p></p><p>I wish I had known to see it all differently. Still, you believe the people who tell you they know how to help ~ at least you do until it doesn't work. </p><p></p><p>I am glad you are able to turn away from the sib issues. You are right. Once you see it you cannot unsee it, and boy, does everything look different once you do.</p><p></p><p>Here's to us both, and to every one of us struggling to find the truth in the ways we learned to make sense of our situations, both as moms, and as little girls.</p><p></p><p>:O)</p><p></p><p>Or as dads, and as little boys.</p><p></p><p>Cedar</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scent of Cedar *, post: 643597, member: 17461"] Those challenges have made you very strong. That comes through clearly here on the site, especially as you have unraveled the toxicity in your family of origin and clarified what was really happening around you. I appreciate your honesty about how all that felt. I was talking to difficult child daughter about what it was like for her as an adolescent, and it nearly broke my heart to hear it. She described that same unreasoning kind of fear, and she described too feeling that she didn't fit in anywhere, and that she wasn't popular. It looked so different from my point of view ~ difficult child daughter seemed to be such a little rebel. She has friends who are loyal to her to this day. It must have so much to do with how we interpret what is happening to us. I wish I had known to see it all differently. Still, you believe the people who tell you they know how to help ~ at least you do until it doesn't work. I am glad you are able to turn away from the sib issues. You are right. Once you see it you cannot unsee it, and boy, does everything look different once you do. Here's to us both, and to every one of us struggling to find the truth in the ways we learned to make sense of our situations, both as moms, and as little girls. :O) Or as dads, and as little boys. Cedar [/QUOTE]
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