Perhaps you're right. I don't know. I'm stepping so far out of my comfort zone I can't see it objectively. All I know is that I have lived in fear of truly speaking my mind, and now I'm finding the confidence to do it. Maybe there is a better way.

I'm feeling terribly frustrated. I've been shut out for so long that it is literally driving me crazy.

Maybe I feel it's my turn to do it publicly. Maybe I haven't quite gotten over the hurt I felt when I read H's comments (before I was posting). Some of the things he wrote hurt me very deeply. Some of these topics are extremely sensitive to me, like my pregnancy. It wasn't just that he said them; it was the way he said them, with sarcastic and cutting words. And the fact that he said them on the internet and I couldn't defend myself at all just added to it.