If you’ve been particularly co-dependent in your relationships, putting other people’s feelings and needs before your own, withholding the truth for fear of upsetting others, unwilling to ask questions or set proper boundaries, all for the terror of being abandoned, then your rage is like the life-affirming cry of a newborn who is smacked into its first deep breath. Something in you is waking up, and you want to nourish that life-giving impulse and bring it into the light of day to fully make it your own.
