Yes. I have been betrayed, my kids have been betrayed, I work as hard as I can while in pain and get no appreciation. Yet I still punish myself instead of expressing my anger when events come up. I can go back 10 or more years to all kinds of events with all kinds of people where I didn't express my anger. Instead I took on blame.
I am angry. Not hurt. Angry. No, I'm not sitting here festering over it. I'm just saying that I choose to push the hurt outward so it can be the anger that it was originally. Then, when the appropriate times come up I CAN express it. I can be myself, someone who is allowed to get angry.
Instead of the little boy who wasn't allowed to express his anger.
