She would tell me everything- things as a child I didn’t need to be knowing. “My mother would be telling me how disgusting my father is and how she felt when he touched her. This plan was made without any input from me, without any thought spared for how it could possibly affect my family. As she anticipated, her decision to sever ties with her family was met with contention and a lack of empathy. Breaking those generational traumas of enmeshment has looked like encouraging her little one, to identify and use her voice.
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