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<blockquote data-quote="Estranged2015" data-source="post: 648104" data-attributes="member: 18760"><p>Very, very enlightening, 2much. I too haven't thought that a "child" can actually abuse a parent, though I've accepted that he is "abusive." Just hadn't quite made the last few inches of the connection. Your words also explain why he is so interested in knowing how much money I earn, and wise me up about the chances that he'll actually do therapy. Once again, I was thinking as if he were like me, which he is not. He is actually much more like my father, an abuser, and his own father, who coldheartedly abandoned us when he discovered (in his own mind) that our son was "defective" and it was all my fault. (Son had a lot of infantile seizures, didn't learn to talk for a long time, and eventually, long after father vanished, had trouble learning. Hence the private special-ed school.)</p><p></p><p>Writing this all out makes me realize how much it has been to deal with. </p><p></p><p>Seeing the responses clicked by members gives me heart, but I have to admit that though I've been taking concrete positive steps, I'm not in great shape. I spent yesterday in bed, the first time I've done that when not sick. Doing ANYTHING was too much. I am trying to put one foot in front of the other.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Estranged2015, post: 648104, member: 18760"] Very, very enlightening, 2much. I too haven't thought that a "child" can actually abuse a parent, though I've accepted that he is "abusive." Just hadn't quite made the last few inches of the connection. Your words also explain why he is so interested in knowing how much money I earn, and wise me up about the chances that he'll actually do therapy. Once again, I was thinking as if he were like me, which he is not. He is actually much more like my father, an abuser, and his own father, who coldheartedly abandoned us when he discovered (in his own mind) that our son was "defective" and it was all my fault. (Son had a lot of infantile seizures, didn't learn to talk for a long time, and eventually, long after father vanished, had trouble learning. Hence the private special-ed school.) Writing this all out makes me realize how much it has been to deal with. Seeing the responses clicked by members gives me heart, but I have to admit that though I've been taking concrete positive steps, I'm not in great shape. I spent yesterday in bed, the first time I've done that when not sick. Doing ANYTHING was too much. I am trying to put one foot in front of the other. [/QUOTE]
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