NC is for YOU

Until very recently I thought that NC was a way to get my Nrents to treat me better. And it sort of worked, briefly, from time to time. But now I realized, late in life, that it is actually a way to protect myself. I've noticed, reading these posts. that there are a lot of young people who still think it might somehow get their Ns to treat them better or start behaving like normal people and "miss" them. It never will. It makes them miss the attention we give them. I sort of instinctively went LC or NC on and off when I was young but it never stuck because I thought, you know, "family." But get out, and learn about trauma bonding and fix it, ASAP. Just wanted to share for the people who can still have good lives, unlike me, who fucked it all up.