“Not all toxic people are cruel and uncaring. Some of them love us dearly. Many of them have good intentions. Most are toxic to our being simply because their needs and way of existing in the world force us to compromise ourselves and our happiness.
They aren’t inherently bad people, but they aren’t the right people for us.” ~Daniell Koepke If someone had asked me a year ago if I would ever cut contact with my mom, my answer would have been a definite no.
After reconnecting with my dad in 2020 (we didn’t speak for over eleven years), I decided to handle this parent business differently.
Part of me strongly believed that if I was healing and doing this inner work right, I would be able to find a way to coexist in a relationship with my parents, and that I had to do that at all costs.