Sorry to hear this Wendy 😢I’ve realized that life and relationships are more complicated than I believed. You can still love your abuser & your abuser can love you but know no better due to their own childhood and trauma… still, it’s important for each of us to process and protect our own health and happiness. We can understand someone’s ‘bad’ behavior but we do not need to accept it. We can’t ‘save’ others only ourselves. And letting go of complicated, especially familial pains can be scary because then ‘who are we without our story’. I guess letting go is also complicated and may take time and stages. The important thing is that we have self compassion and keep walking towards love 🫶 Sending you love & strength 🫶
