they never even knew what that choice cost me.
People ask me now, “Why did you stay so long?” I didn’t see it clearly until I started therapy in September of last year. My therapist, Dr. Moss, asked me a simple question.
“If a stranger treated you this way, would you tolerate it?”
I said, “No.”
She said, “Then why do you tolerate it from your mother?”
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