Originally Posted by
Tuffgirl 
My RAH can't take my feelings into consideration because he is just now beginning to recognize his own. How could he possibly understand and empathize with mine?
This is a big discovery. Thank you so much for sharing it, because it is helping me through some other things (my parents).
Not that they are/were addicts, but they live in a world of facades, and no true permission to exist as themselves. They expect me to buy into this, so they can build up the facade of being a perfect little family where nobody has a single thought of their own except to be with each other.
Not for me, but sometimes I wonder why they can be happy living like this.
You've made me realize that they're not. They're just taking what they think everyone else has, taking what society says they should have, and trying to play make believe that they've got it.
I don't think you're going backwards.
I think you made a mistake, and learned something big from it.
Hooray for you!
