Posted by Dinah on May 5, 2005, at 19:04:02
My therapist has been hammering away at that subject of my father making me an ersatz spouse emotionally if not physically, and in my case my mother doing the same, but at an earlier age. I suppose you could say I divorced one and went straight to the other.
He keeps wanting to call it emotional abuse.
But I just can't see it that way. I *liked* it. I *liked* the power. I didn't discourage it, quite the contrary. I encouraged it until the day my father died. I miss it now.
It makes me sad to hear it characterized as abuse.
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thread:494198
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