The Micro in the Macro. And Vice Versa

The damage that takes place in childhood stays with us FOR LIFE unless we can heal it.   Insistence that we should “just get over it,” let alone the insistence of the abuser and enablers that it didn’t happen at all are phenomenally destructive to children, and the adults they become.  Let alone if that child then later gets into an abusive relationship with someone who “gaslights” them, swearing that there is nothing going on.  Forcing you to doubt your own perceptions and memories.  “Don’t...