Originally Posted by
bluebelle The article was good. I found #6 to be good for me today. It always bothered me that my mom is always the "victim," but I wonder how much I do that, too. I really want to stop seeing myself like that and using it as an excuse to not improve my life.
Number six was mine too. It's too easy to start believing we're fundamentally flawed. And if it makes you feel any better my last, real GF, before I met the addict, played the victim card for years before I finally got tired of it and got out.