Dear cali sister:

What an amazing post! So much awareness, clear and correct thinking, excellent, I exclaim, this very early morning!

I hope you re- read your above post when you need to, when you don’t feel as well as you felt when you wrote it, to remind yourself that indeed, you “can feel like this, that it is possible and real”. As I see it, you had the misfortune to be born to your mother and to her submissive husband who sides with her and in so doing, sides against his daughters)- no  need to perpetuate this misfortune for a life time.

You did lose a lot of time and you will still suffer, unfortunately. Accept the lost time, the suffering that you already experienced and take on the opportunity to gradually, long term, lessen and maybe eliminate this suffering all together. Keep the good work.

I like a whole lot of what you wrote, including this: “I AM the priority. me.”

anita