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I believe everything is a learning lesson if we choose.

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I am not hung up on the past, nor does this particular story have any bearing on my life now, except it did become a pattern of what was to come.

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They’re extremely self-absorbed.

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I was useless, that I would never amount to anything. But then she’ll turn around and try to guilt trip me into believing that she cares and that she loves me.

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Falsehoods about parents always being loving and having our best interests at heart simply do not cut it when it comes to manipulative, toxic and abusive parents.

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Toxic behaviour is often difficult to see, and it is even more difficult when the toxic people are your own parents.