What if you become persuaded through mountains of hard evidence that you don’t think your Mom was “good”, and that you only convinced yourself of this out of convenience and necessity? Will you force yourself to stop loving her?
This kind of thing can happen when parents are abusive. Their children may go through a long process of realizing that they’ve been treated badly for no good reason, and then another long process of sorting out their emotions towards the abusive parent(s).
This kind of thing can happen when parents are abusive. Their children may go through a long process of realizing that they’ve been treated badly for no good reason, and then another long process of sorting out their emotions towards the abusive parent(s).