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Ipanema Thanks for writing that it's ok to not answer calls from friends and family if they are toxic!!! No explanations to her anymore about where I was, with home, etc. etc. So this is not really family of origin (which was an alcoholic father/bipolar mother) but the disease carries on down thru generations from what I have observed.
yeah, that's kind of what I was saying, but kind of not. be a good judge of when your help & heart is needed & when it is not. that's worth being rigorously honest about.