I do have a relationship with my mom, but it's kind of troubled, since I am not honest with her. She has no idea about the PTSD or the feelings I still have about the abuse and her role in allowing it. I tried to confront her once and it blew up in my face, and I don't think it's worth the risk to try again. We get together about once a month and I think she'd say we're close. I feel the stress of lying by omission, though, so I feel unhappy with the relationship a lot.

Not really. I see him 2-3 holidays a year because trying to get out of them would be difficult to explain without exploding the whole situation. Those times are pretty upsetting for me, though I've learned how to bounce back from them faster.

I think my T believes that if I were honest with my family, we could resolve some of this and I would feel better. I worry that talking about it would exile me from the family, so T doesn't push me on it. I don't think having a family that knew how hurt I was would necessarily improve my situation.