What a great assessment of the current media trends through what used to be called yellow journalism and is now received (after wearing us down) as the new normal. Ever notice how the word 'hilarious' has changed on the net? I used to buy into it and click on to take a look...really, this is what they consider hilarious??? What a waste of my time.

I will forever be questioning definitions because I what I learned as a child in abusive homes. I refuse to believe with childlike faith what I learned in the past as taught to me at the knee of my abusers. I guess that is what being an adult is all about.

Now that I know better, I've taught our kids to question authority, including mine. Having them come home now that they are grown and tell me what hurt them back then makes me sorry and sad, but it also gives me a chance to hear them out, apologize, and guide them towards the healing tools they want and need. Even paying for therapy at times.

They have their own values that are different from mine and that is rewarding to be a part of: I've encouraged them many times to "eat the meat and throw away the bones" of their early training when I was suffering from diagnoses yet to be discovered. They didn't know that; all they knew is that their mother was terribly depressed, broke out in rages when irritated, and confused the heck out of them. All have been in therapy. We have worked through many issues and are better as a result.

We talk here in our posts of being triggered by those ahead. But are any of you old enough to realize how you may be someone else's trigger? as a result of your own trigger still being triggered? Very humbling, to say the least.