You know, in school and in society, families are painted as havens and sanctuaries and other mythical scenarios but those of us who have grown up in abuse know different. Once we get past the confusion, I think we begin to know better.

I have had to do this also, my family and some friends had to be cut off. My family would go back and forth from ignoring me to brutal bullying and attacking. Nothing I ever did met their approval; I had to cut them off. It was killing me.