Dear Broken Man:

I copied and pasted your most recent post so to print for my own keep because it describes my childhood so well. Your description is so clear, sensible, simple and thorough, it amazes me. In my effort to get yet more insight into my own childhood and my own complex PTSD symptoms, I would like to ask you a few questions. If you are willing, please consider sharing the following with me:

1. Have you been hoping, through your history with her, that she will change? Are you hoping that she will become a calm, happy woman?

2. If you hoped or hope that she will change, did you try to – other than walking on eggshells- to make her calm and happy? How?

anita