Dear Joe:

I like your spirit, fresh start, changes to be made, no longer being a victim. If this forum can be of help to you in your journey, please do use it. Please do post again and again. I will personally respond with your best interest in mind.

I don’t know if you are ready or willing to examine my following point, and it is okay with me if you are not: you choose, always, YOU choose.

Your current contacts with your family, your still condescending sister, your still dismissing, disrespectful parents… how do you deal with that? My concern is that you are still a subject to disrespect, condescension, dismissal. And that it is still dragging you down, still feeding the inner critic.

In my case, just looking at my mother, just being in her present, was hurting me like hell. She didn’t have to say anything. She could be looking at me with love… but I felt like dying, just being in her presence.

How are you doing with them? With ongoing interactions with them?

anita