In 2012, my step-mother said to me, “You saved yourself.” That was the first kind, supportive thing I had ever heard her say about me. I guess verbal affirmation was not her love language. So you can imagine that it meant a lot to me, because even as adults, children always want their parents to be proud of them.
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