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Addiction- a perfectly normal response to unhealed unacknowledged, unsupported long term ongoing trauma.

Inside Jokes and Situational Nicknames

Post author:Magda Gee
Post published:December 9, 2016
Post category:Acceptance addiction dirty secrets Faith Family Divider Intimacy Self-Love Surviving Narcissistic Abuse Trauma

Needy as shit this week, I have been relentless- calling Sweet Greg or peppering him with texts with a word or reference to something hysterically funny, to only the two of…

Silence

Post author:Magda Gee
Post published:November 29, 2016
Post category:Acceptance addiction dirty secrets Faith Family Divider Intimacy Self-Love Surviving Narcissistic Abuse Trauma Triangulation & Smear Campaigns

Not stoic enough to be silent or aloof, I am practicing saying and doing nothing in response to underhanded invitations to enter into indirect conflict. While I
now set boundaries for only myself, without arguing to be heard, my abstinence from standard entanglement is labelled abandonment—“cutting them off” because that is how silence is used in my family. I just say No. Or Sorry that won’t work until it no longer makes sense to say it again.

So, I have mostly quieted my mouth, but my head still spins with all the things I wish to say or stop feeling and thinking. Silence with a trusted other is golden.

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