Threshold - good for you! You sound so strong and empowered. Although I am very much still getting used to it, I LOVE knowing I have options, always. One day I was feeling pretty down and sorry for myself because I'm the only one in my family not in denial and I was missing my ex (who left me and my dysfunction in the rearview) - then I found this fortune from a cookie at my work:
"Your power is in your ability to decide"
I signed a lease for my own place away from my RA and dysfunctional fam that day. It is hard to remember sometimes that we are only trapped because we are in a cage of our own decisions, and it just takes one different choice to unlock the door - I like to reread this entry when I feel trapped or hopeless:
Scared? Stuck? Hey Fear, Back Off