I feel like a freak. No one in the history of the universe has ever felt the way that I do, in terms of how I make sense of my past, how therapy works for me, and how I have healed (and am healing, and still need to heal).

And I am a freak as a wife and mother, because I have relished the opportunity to be away from my family in a beautiful location, and I am dreading returning to their demands and requests.