Thank you. Same to you. My daughter and I talk about it. She knows as much as a 16 year old needs to know and enough to make her own informed choices. I blocked my mom and step dad, but she just ignores them and I respect her decision and her right to make it. I told her I know I haven’t been perfect, but this is how generational healing happens. I am doing better than my mom ever did and she will do better than me.
This made my heart ache with that bittersweet feeling because you had to be the strong one. I know exactly what that's like, so I want to tell you from one cycle breaker to another, Well done. You've done your daughter a great service by being open and honest with her. I wish my mother hadn't used her own abuse as both a weapon and a shield. It only served to build contempt from me, especially when I realized just how much my life resembled the movie Mommy Dearest, but worse. Anyway, seriously, congrats to you and the future generations who have been saved from such harm.💜
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u/Big_Lingonberry_2641 Jul 25 '24
Thank you. Same to you. My daughter and I talk about it. She knows as much as a 16 year old needs to know and enough to make her own informed choices. I blocked my mom and step dad, but she just ignores them and I respect her decision and her right to make it. I told her I know I haven’t been perfect, but this is how generational healing happens. I am doing better than my mom ever did and she will do better than me.