thank you so much!! I very much appreciate it 😊

I sincerely appreciate the kind words!!

In better news though, being free of her to a certain extent is really valuable for me and being able to be more openly myself is so fulfilling despite the ridicule. I was held back by her constant disparagement and flat out insults from allowing myself to care inwardly. I'm free of that now!!

much better at being an adult than I was, and that I was clearly using weaponized incompetence or excuses to not do her chores for her.

Every day that I struggled to get out of bed or do the laundry was met with scorn and half a decade of belittlement. I couldn't ever express weakness or difficulties I was having without being reduced to being childish and that she (who doesn't struggle with even most of the same stuff) was so...

In the face of the worst evil in the world today, we have to live.

We have to be there to see it fall.