I also learned very early in life that it was not safe and that others wouldn't respond anyway. It's taken me a while to have any ability to trust someone enough to find out this does not have to be the case. It was primarily with my therapist, though I also have been in a long term committed relationship too. The kinds of experiences I have now were not possible growing up in my family. Part of the work of therapy for me has been to undo that.
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“Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.” – Isaac Bashevis Singer
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