I didn't get it then. I get it now, at least I am starting to. I am just beginning to understand the extent to which they just abandoned me. And what it has cost me in terms of really poor life decisions. I have always thought it was somehow 'wrong' to even look at this whole situation-disloyal, ungrateful, whatever you want to call it. I was just a little girl who needed her parents. And they checked out.
Does this ever speak to me.
I felt the same.
Toxic Parents was the first book I read (at the recomendation of a therpist) where I sat there and thought, OMG, I was really mistreated. It was seriously tough to swallow, bc I had lead myself to believe I was just a bad decision maker, hard to deal with, selfish, and less than good person. Nope.
I remember hiding the book when my mom came over, it seemed disloyal at the time for her to see it. We have come a long way now and talk alot and are now very close.
Good for you...you are working it
