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  • Midlife Musings,  Rotting Roots

    I Will Not Dumb Myself Down

    July 22, 2020 /No Comments

    On refusing to let anyone - my mother, the ex, anyone - treat me like I don't know my own mind. A zero-tolerance policy.

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    Stepped Over the Line – Disrespecting My Boundaries

    December 17, 2019 /No Comments

    I texted my brother to say I wasn't coming to work. That should have been the end of it. It was not the end of it.

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    I Am Not the Favorite Child

    December 22, 2014 /No Comments

    My mother washes the mug I was using and hands it straight to my brother mid-sip, and no, I am not overreacting about a cup.

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    He Expected a Fight and Other Epiphanies

    September 30, 2013 /1 Comment

    mr horrible flew 1400 miles expecting a fight. He got polite indifference and watched me leave for class without telling him anything. What changed wasn't him. It was me.

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