Over the Shock and GALing 6

[Thinker]

I told Mrs. Thinker about the conversation with my parents.

She opened up and let me have it - angry!

Not about the conversation. That seemed to satisfy her.

She opened up and got angry about "13 years of being treated badly" by my family.

She also told me that she saw me as standing by and doing nothing to defend her, and that it had made her angry, and that eventually she had grouped me in with them and became disgusted with the whole lot.

I agree with SmileysPerson:

I think my sense of its incredibilitude has to do with the fact that W told you.

Why?

Because you don't tell people about your secret hurts unless you trust them.

And trust is a positive emotional-affective response to another; which is an opening; which could lead to more trust and more positive emotional-affective responses; and the next thing you know it's like a shampoo commercial...and so on and so on.

This stuff hurts to hear, but it makes me happy that she is saying it.