- If your wife came from a troubled childhood it was not an "if" they have a midlife crisis question, it is a "when" question. - She is angry at her childhood and how it has followed/affected her entire life.
Hmmm - definitely true for my W. I never put much weight on it's impact on her though. She has a lot of anger towards her father especially and feels that she was short-changed about a lot of things. Add on to that some suspected sexual abuse at the hands of an uncle that the family blatantly ignored and this may well have been a time-bomb that was going to blow no matter what.
I had always hoped that our own loving, stable home would be her anchor and safe harbour and allow her to get over it.
This is yet again a day that I really wish that W was here and could read this sort of stuff too. On the other hand she angrily denied that she was troubled and needed help at least when she was fully in the fog.
On BD H52, W50 T27, M26 S21, D23 BD-9-Mar-16 D-15-Jan-18 Final-19-Apr-18 I am a storyteller. The story may do you no good. But a story is never for the listener. It is always for the one who tells
