Thank you very much.

Yes, I will try to work on the praise. It's very difficult for me to do with my mother because she always does it for herself (honestly, it's part of her dx'ed personality disorder). I will try hard, though.

Also, I'll try to look for the "sign" that points to a major infraction. There are many smaller ones, but I'm picking my battles here.

I was thinking about the time since I began to fight for myself and it really has been a worthy fight so far. I'm going to start another thread about the "payoff" for identifying, establishing, then maintaining boundaries and the payoff's that I've experienced in just this short time, as well as how hard it was to begin...

KD