Yes. Life was pretty good until I was 6 years old. Then my world fell apart and it seemed to just continue on that way until I finally accepted that I live in a fallen-apart world. So I've done, and am doing, the best I can to cope with life this way.

After age 6 my family situation became terribly abusive, all the types of abuse in the book. I was raised by and surrounded by people with various types of mental and emotional illnesses. At age 18 I married a man who was 34 (no, he isn't a perv, just very emotionally immature). He's abusive, too, which is why we don't live together. I've stayed married to him for financial reasons.