by Charity and Laura
[Friend: What is your parent introject like?]
Rachel (23) holds a lot of trauma based on the grandmother (mother's mother). The GM abused the mother emotionally and verbally if not in other ways. This continued even after the mother got married and gave birth to us.
Mainstream singletons don't get how somatized childhood abuse (and abusive scenarios for adult children) affects the third generation, especially during the third generation's earliest years, and even gestation. It's not our job to make the mainstream understand this, but it's important to our own healing to accept our own truth.
The GM has been dead for over 10 years, and the mother for over 15 years. And our healing, including Rachel's, is far from over.
[Note: We wrote the above while working in parallel, not cooperatively.--L.]
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