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<blockquote data-quote="Scent of Cedar *" data-source="post: 650229" data-attributes="member: 17461"><p>I agree 2much, but I think (at least this is true for me) that we can never walk away with our heads held high. I am so ashamed, sometimes, that these things have happened to me. Or I am so ~ it's like I feel stupid. I don't get the motivation, so I think that what is happening to me could not be true.</p><p></p><p>That is why Radical Acceptance has been good for me. That, and the scientificly based information you and MWM post for us, here.</p><p></p><p>Why doesn't matter.</p><p></p><p>Just get out.</p><p></p><p>Remember that story about the toxic pond, and about the frog princess who went back for a short visit and never got out again?</p><p></p><p>That is how scary some of this stuff seems to me.</p><p></p><p>The longer I am away from the dynamic in my family of origin, the more the extraneous pieces are falling into place and I see...I don't know what I see.</p><p></p><p>True wickedness, or something worse.</p><p></p><p>It's mind blowing, when you think about how these kinds of people have changed the world. My own personal world, the worlds of my children, the whole, wide world.</p><p></p><p>War, racism, the celebration of poverty or education priced beyond attaining it or strip mining. (I have been learning about the way they strip mine, these days. They are blasting the tops of the Appalachian mountains off to get at the seams of coal. I cannot believe it. Such an ugliness, and such a stupidity. Who thinks this stuff up?!?)</p><p></p><p>I know I sound batty. </p><p></p><p>But haven't we all (most of us, the best of us) wondered how it is that people can so vehemently believe some of the things they believe?</p><p></p><p>It is not different, in our dysfunctional families.</p><p></p><p>Cedar</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scent of Cedar *, post: 650229, member: 17461"] I agree 2much, but I think (at least this is true for me) that we can never walk away with our heads held high. I am so ashamed, sometimes, that these things have happened to me. Or I am so ~ it's like I feel stupid. I don't get the motivation, so I think that what is happening to me could not be true. That is why Radical Acceptance has been good for me. That, and the scientificly based information you and MWM post for us, here. Why doesn't matter. Just get out. Remember that story about the toxic pond, and about the frog princess who went back for a short visit and never got out again? That is how scary some of this stuff seems to me. The longer I am away from the dynamic in my family of origin, the more the extraneous pieces are falling into place and I see...I don't know what I see. True wickedness, or something worse. It's mind blowing, when you think about how these kinds of people have changed the world. My own personal world, the worlds of my children, the whole, wide world. War, racism, the celebration of poverty or education priced beyond attaining it or strip mining. (I have been learning about the way they strip mine, these days. They are blasting the tops of the Appalachian mountains off to get at the seams of coal. I cannot believe it. Such an ugliness, and such a stupidity. Who thinks this stuff up?!?) I know I sound batty. But haven't we all (most of us, the best of us) wondered how it is that people can so vehemently believe some of the things they believe? It is not different, in our dysfunctional families. Cedar [/QUOTE]
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