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[quote=Anonymous]I come from an intact family, parents are both educated, my father has an Ivy League education. They are happily married.   I’ve never seen domestic violence, addiction, mental illness or experienced food insecurity or poverty.  They paid for private schools and all our college plus post-graduate expenses.  All we were asked to do was be safe, get good grades in school.  They always came to parent teacher conferences.  They made sure we had extracurricular activities.  They did all this in a solidly middle class salary. They’re not easy to speak to because they’re very reserved and emotionally inhibited, but other than that, my childhood was a safe place. It took me a long time to establish boundaries and be assertive because it was something I didn’t have to do growing up.  I am also very shaken when I have had encounters with people who are very angry, mentally ill and emotionally disturbed.  I am used to people behaving according to social norms.  When people don’t, I am quite surprised.

My husband had a completely different upbringing although he’s turned out to be an easy going, kind person. [/quote]

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