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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m not trying to be overbearing, but now there’s the elephant in the room of knowing that they had she horrific experiences for 17 years and she [b]pretends that it was this idyll except a couple people who were jealous that her mom was a nurse and their mom was on welfare or worked in a grocery store.[/b] Knowing that isn’t at all what her childhood is really like, we’re all questioning her ability to be honest about things that bother her. Is this her regular coping mechanism or a one-off? She’s told Stepson so many stories about the moves and being a new kid, and never mentioned that they moved for their safety! That is huge. [/quote]

Umm, hang on, not that it really matters because you're meddling either way, but maybe that's what her mom told her growing up? So that's why she believes it? I can easily imagine a parent who finds it easier to say, "they're just jealous because we have more than they do," than a parent who says, "yep, they hate us for no reason and think that we are less-than because of the color of our skin."[/quote]

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That was honestly my first thought.  Maybe, to protect her, the mother told her that the issues were due to jealousy, not racism.  [/quote]

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