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10. I had a very difficult relationship
Tue Feb 4, 2014, 05:16 PM
Feb 2014

with my mother, who had all kinds of mental illnesses, but I have had a similar experience as you did with your father. There are a lot of things that came about in my life as a direct result of the pain of that relationship, and many of them are the things that make me happy today. You can never know if, in the long run, something will turn out to be a good thing or a bad thing in your life, no matter how bad it is.

But I, too, see the path of destruction that those attitudes have cut.

Nothing is simple, but I do think that the next generation is a huge leap better at working through these things.

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