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[quote=Anonymous]OP here -- thanks to all for the support and kindness. I appreciate hearing that this, too, is a stage of a process and that many of you were here once but moved on.

I can't say that living well is any consolation, because of my inner critic.

I have cut off contact with both parents, but they continue to send me gifts and contact me as though our relationship is normal. I guess they are just preserving the charade of being a loving parent to themselves and third parties ("look! I send her gifts every Christmas -- even though she won't acknowledge me! oh how I suffer!").

Plus, I feel like I have to continually renew my choice of not communicating with them. Like, every week I have to drag myself through the justification process again, and dredge up all the pros cons risks, etc. I'm having a hard time letting go because of this and also because new things come up for me like corpses rising from the grave as my children grow and hit new milestones and I reflect back on my analogous situation as a child.

Maybe I don't have all the issues on the table, fully surfaced yet.[/quote]

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