Epiphanies.

Often I read something or someone says something that triggers a reaction. A total Huh? moment. Today it was a line from a book. Sherrilyn Kenyon's At Deaths Door had character who had been abused mentally and physically and became very angry. The line was "But then betrayal had a way of bringing out witch in even the gentlest of creatures." I've always been treated as if I imagined slights and had anger issues. I was expected to set my needs and wants aside to do for others. I was to put myself last. First my parents,then my brother followed by my husband. Everyone I loved treated me as if I was less and wrong for being upset by it. I was never allowed to do or have anything just for me. I was trained to put myself last. I can see that now and realize it wasn't me, but them. I deserved more from them than that.

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