After I Cut Off Contact From My Mother, I Was Shocked By The Brutal Move My Sisters Made
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After I Cut Off Contact From My Mother, I Was Shocked By The Brutal Move My Sisters Made

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The author in her backyard in McLean, Virginia, in 1971. You only have one.” Or, “She gave birth to you — surely that counts for something.” People’s reactions to me took on a new wariness. That’s called “having boundaries.” At first, my chest would cave in each time I thought about the cruelty implicit in my choice. It took years before I had the good sense to see that her treatment of me went beyond mistakes and landed far outside the bounds of “that’s just how it was done back then.” I didn’t do anything to my mother. My connection with my sisters was already fragile because my mother encouraged competition and distrust with her own put-downs and comparisons, and she never missed an opportunity to repeat someone else’s.

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