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[quote=Anonymous]I found it helpful to think of my mother as an emotional black hole. I had been trained that it was my job to try to fill the emptiness in her life from all the people who failed her—her parents, my father, the many friends who dared to question her and were thereafter deemed betrayers. But no amount od my love or obedience would ever fill the empty space inside her because she is not a regular hole. She is a black hole. She will suck me dry and be just and empty and angry as she was at the start. So instead I had to decide what I wanted to do for her, to make ME feel okay. But the goal cannot be to make her feel okay, because she never ever will.[/quote]
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