@parus

I sense in both your thoughts expressed in your words, and in your attitude, a move in a positive direction since we last talked. You go!!

I keep thinking that I've released myself from the control of people who have hurt me deeply. Then, up pops a reminder, and I let it go one more time. If only it were an instant, one time action.

I agree with you. My therapists over the past 12 years have worked with me to accept myself as is. Progress has been made in both of us.

Jim