Thank you so much! I didn’t get into details of recovering tactics since I have written on that too and didn’t want to make this piece too lengthy. But yes to everything you listed. Also, therapy. Also, falling in love with a healthy and kind man who treated me with jarring love and respect, this really shook my perspective. At the start, his healthy “normal” behaviors were so foreign to me that it forced me to compare and realize the severe dysfunction and abuse. Perhaps I can write about that contrast revelation as well. It scared me because normal didn’t seem normal to me, and I was frightened to realize I lived in such a psychotic world for so long. So many people along the way have healed me with their kindness, a drastic contrast to the life I lived before. Thank you again.