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Email from difficult child-- do I (how) respond?
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<blockquote data-quote="recoveringenabler" data-source="post: 619243" data-attributes="member: 13542"><p>Childofmine, your post is perfect..........it's not only with alcoholics, my Dad could do that and would do that at any given chance......it was like listening to a long, ugly diatribe at every dinner of my young life. My daughter would wear me out with it..........my head would be spinning and my eyes rolling back in my head and I would say, "OK, OK, whatever" when she was a teenager.........now I look at that as abuse. My Dad, my daughter and others use that verbal, blaming, scary, intellectual toxic dumping as another form of manipulation and to bolster their belief in their superiority over others, when in reality all it is is another fear tactic to keep those around them in line and doing what they want. It took me a long time to see that since I grew up with the same kind of insanity. Now my radar is acute for that and I don't enter in to any of those kind of circular, destructive tirades.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="recoveringenabler, post: 619243, member: 13542"] Childofmine, your post is perfect..........it's not only with alcoholics, my Dad could do that and would do that at any given chance......it was like listening to a long, ugly diatribe at every dinner of my young life. My daughter would wear me out with it..........my head would be spinning and my eyes rolling back in my head and I would say, "OK, OK, whatever" when she was a teenager.........now I look at that as abuse. My Dad, my daughter and others use that verbal, blaming, scary, intellectual toxic dumping as another form of manipulation and to bolster their belief in their superiority over others, when in reality all it is is another fear tactic to keep those around them in line and doing what they want. It took me a long time to see that since I grew up with the same kind of insanity. Now my radar is acute for that and I don't enter in to any of those kind of circular, destructive tirades. [/QUOTE]
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