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[quote=Anonymous]My grandparents were messed up (alcoholics, PTSD from the war, violent towards their kids), my parents were messed up by all that, so I am of course messed up. My spouse has a similar history. We seem like normal people and I guess we are, in the sense that many people have this kind of family history. I feel doomed. I feel like my child is doomed. That my marriage is doomed. I feel like the best I can hope for is to not be TOO miserable and to not mess up my kid TOO much. I try to focus on how much I love my kid and being a good parent. I think I even am a pretty good parent. But there is so much ambient dysfunction over which I have no control, or limited control. Trying to stop this cycle again feels so hard. I am very tired and just want to feel loved and accepted and for my child to feel loved and accepted. I can try to give that to them but who gives it to me? I just feel broken.[/quote]
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