Cookiez - I understand the feeling as I feel it too. I never feel like I'm good enough... and I just don't fit in with my family at all.
I've found physical distance to be the most beneficial thing. And I keep conversations with my family to superficial topics. It's taken a lot of effort on my part, but my parents no longer pry for information unless I'm physically there.
It took me a long time to accept that my family was who they are, and that they're never going to change.. no matter how much I wanted them too. So I had to make the changes that I could to find the best possibly compromise that wasn't going to put my own identity or self-worth at risk. I had to find out what I was and was not willing to put up with, and then to figure out how I was going to enforce those boundaries. Sometimes it still doesn't work, but at least I know I've tried to protect myself and still be an "ok" daughter.
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"The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of many things. Of shoes, of ships, of sealing wax, of cabbages, of kings! Of why the sea is boiling hot, of whether pigs have wings..."
"I have a problem with low self-esteem. Which is really ridiculous when you consider how amazing I am.
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