I have been myself for all of my time in my organisation. There are nice people but most tend to withdraw into their shells when the conflict doesn't involve the. Understandable but really discouraging.
My friends have included me in their activities but there is a limit to how much I or kid and I can be involved in their lives. Svcks but it's something that I have to figure out.
I have thought of myself as being diminished but it does hurt when others treat kid and me like lepers. I know it's their monkey and I have to just get used to it.
It doesn't define me. At times, I can see how toxic the whole R with the x and his family (and even my parents) have been and am relieved that I no longer have to be in certain unpleasant sitchs anymore.
It's really my culture over here. Third-world patriarchal sentiments.
You can call me Dory/ Grl.
As a wise fish once sang,"Just keep swimming!"
It's no use to go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.
