Miss Laura,

Thank you. It was just one of those situations where everyone pretended everything was fine Monday to Friday and then everything went horribly bad on the weekends. A whole lot of extreme emotional abuse. No discussion, no attempt at repair, just a total nightmare. Then Monday morning, the switch flipped and everything was "Leave it to Beaver" again. And it went on for several years before the whole family just crashed and splintered into a zillion pieces. And when it did, everyone who knew us was in shock, cause it was hidden so well.

There's nothing to "change". The situation doesn't exist now. But my emotional damage has repeated the routine ever since.