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Originally Posted by Leah123
"Can you really just move on from something like that?"
No, you would do yourself a disservice to overlook or push away harm done to you because you felt so needy for connection now.
There is a vast difference between parents healing, growing, working hard to improve and making amends, and parents who can sort of toe the line if you don't say anything honest that might bother them.
Your deep desire to make this right no matter the cost to yourself is common. I understand it. But I think you rightly sense that it's not so simple- you'd be sacrificing your sense of self and worth to write off that treatment as being irrelevant because it was in the past.
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I think they are honestly, genuinely just not self-aware enough to realize they ever did anything wrong. And part of me is very against blaming people for their own ignorance...on the other hand, they sort of OUGHT to have known that their behavior was wrong...but they just don't have the capacity to see that, I think. So, stalemate?