Agreed anita, it is very easy to misinterpret the emphasis in a written communication. With such a sensitive subject it is even more important not to see an issue where none was intended. If this is to work we must be able to say “I disagree” as easily as we can say that we agree.
My experience may be similar to yours but it is not YOUR experience. You are the only person who knows what that it was like for you. No one should be able to invalidate your experience. How sad that the people who most need to believe this (you and me and a thousand others) are the people who have been brought up by a parent who denied us the opportunity to learn our true worth and instead handed us a burden of fear and self-doubt.

Time and Patience is going to be my new mantra.