"You can visit the zoo, but don't stick your hand in the cages, or you will be bit."

I think of this often when reading through threads on this site. This was the only helpful advice the mother ever gave me. She is the zoo too, although she doesn't see it.

The family (and others too) have done awful, preverted and twisted things to us. I can't even talk about some of these things.

Still I go and visit them for the holidays and other times thinking that I just need to distance myself emotionally while with them. Sometimes we are still drawn into the muck and wounded.

Some monsters can bite through the bars of their cages.