I hope that as you grow stronger within yourself, her power to hurt you becomes less and less. I know you're working on it
It is and I am. Oh, am I ever! Normally, in those rare face-to-face encounters, I keep an even keel with two thoughts: 1) I imagine her children - my beloved StepD and StepS being right there while I interact with her and, 2) I try to remember I am dealing with a confused, pained once horribly abused little girl.
Today was momentary and almost an aberration and I let it go. Even laughed it off with the YouTube clip I posted a few posts later
But the chutzpah! And the money! Why must it always come down to money?!? MoneyMoneyMoneyMoney! I'll never understand, I guess. Thanks.
Gardener
"My soul, be satisfied with flowers, With fruit, with weeds even; but gather them In the one garden you may call your own." Cyrano deBergerac
