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Old Mar 03, 2009, 04:14 PM
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Originally Posted by earthmama View Post
What do you mean, pachy?? That after you had been cared for enough you were able to see more clearly where your mother was coming from??
I meant that being cared for enough allowed me to start believing that caring for myself was OK, plus a lot of thinking-work trying to understand my experience -- and how I too was capable of abusing other people, although I might not actually abuse to the extent that it happened to me.
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