Tag: controlling parenting
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New Years Eve
Well New Year’s Eve is supposed to feel like a reset. Isn’t it? A clean slate? Of sorts? I’d kind of told my self I’d make one last effort. FulFill my obligations. And because of that desire to do the right thing that need deep inside of me to continue playing my part. I found…
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Christmas Wishes & Relief
A Quiet Christmas: Finding Peace in a Day I Dreaded This Christmas didn’t look like the ones in films or on Instagram. There were no big gatherings, no family no chocolates, dinner or clinking glasses, no gifts and no tree. For days beforehand, I’d been stressed about spending it alone — convinced it would feel…
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I wonder…..
when I changed from an individual my mother was proud of to some else whose genuine personality she was a victim of. It seems most likely it was around the time (whenever that was) that she stopped being the one who received praise for who I was. When it was instead compliments given in my…