I love that you stuck to your boundaries!! It made me cheer!
It is so not our journey and it will never be. Once the full realization sinks in, it gets easier, don't you find?
Although, our own journeys are not easy at all, are they? It's been tough defining who I am. Today, for instance, with a thousand things happening I snapped at D. I apologized, explained it was me and it probably was not the best thing to engage me in any dialogue for a bit.
Before I would have just been mean, but the fact that I still was short as a result of my feelings and nothing to do with D always remeinds me of how much more I have to travel.