Unhealthy Friendships - Interesting Read

[pleasteasme]

What is sad to have to discover (actually not discover, but to have to face up to) at the the age of forty odd, is that both parents and both sisters and brother are exactly that!!

Forty odd wasted years of trying to find acceptance, and sometimes just being a little boy looking for a bit of love...

(I grew up mostly in a boarding school - other (all younger) siblings ALL stated home???) - and this is just where it started, a 9 year old throwaway kid

I'm sorry to read this and can relate on looking for acceptance and dare I say, love...

Thankfully, I was able to get myself away from my family because they too are emotional vampires. I have no idea how I did not turn out the same as them. Unlike you, I am a middle child - one of the "forgotten" types.

Particularly in the past several months after dealing with an emotional vampire of the worst kind, I am really working on being ok with myself and those who have hurt me. As much as I have not 'liked' myself in the past, I am starting to realize that everything that has happened to me good and bad, has shaped me into the person I am today - I am accepting this.

I hope you are able to find some peace, resolution, and happiness.