Proper pain!

Listening to your child explain how they stay quiet during confrontation with your co-parent in the same manner you did as a partner to them…………listening to the same coerced explanation from your child, portrayed to them as it was to you, entitling selfish behaviour……the mountains out of molehills, the over reactions, the anxiety of an accident in the house, the being five minutes late……..difference is. I thought that was all I deserved. I hid it, partly embarrassed of what I’d become, partly because I thought this was compromise within a family. It wasn’t and it isn’t. Make as you will what it is, but they’ve been found out by their child a hell of a lot sooner than I ever would…….and they have a choice and it’s more of a given!