Dear HoneyBlossom:

Hugs back to you, and you are welcome. You are working hard for long hours, no wonder you are exhausted! I hope you rested well by the time you are reading this.

“I also wanted to say that despite receiving the same type of abuse as you both, as I read your words, I wanted to punch out both your parents and mine too.  How dare they.” – your (mental) punching is much appreciated!

“I have no doubt you were both beautiful children… I feel such love for neglected and abused animals. They are so easy to love and so deserving of kindness. Perhaps (I) see myself in her and in caring for her, I am caring for myself” – thank you, all children are beautiful and should be treated with kindness. I like the idea of you caring for yourself when you care for your dog.

“I did discuss in therapy, but it will always be painful” – what happened in my childhood is tragic as far as the life of this one individual is concerned (me), but I feel less and less pain about it the more I share about it. I will never pressure anyone to share about their childhood pain though and I respect anyone’s preference to not talk about it.

“I could never have treated my child as I was treated… he has grown up to be very confident and is living his dream life” – congratulations for a job well done, motherhood is the most important job there is.

anita

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