Gwen, it does get better. I would be lying if I said it never goes away.
Remember you have been traumatized. Emotional trauma isn't visible but it is there, as potent as physical trauma. I ow get flashes, rather than enduring memory, but it still hurts.
What we have to do is write ourselves another story. But that is hard to do when all the ground rules just went rushing away in a mighty torrent. We and they are lost in a dark wood, and our job is to get out, and start to live again.
The whole point is we can't know what is happening. MLC is poorly understood, and something that happens to others. There is probably as much knowledge here as anywhere.
You know you can do it - sadly your MIL is part of the problem in all probablity. Miy MIL was kind to me but honestly emotionally unavailable. Sadly she died during all of this. I wish she hadn't had to see her son do the things he did.
