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Mental Health Support

no_hypocrisy

(51,138 posts)

10. They were made ultimately by myself.

Reply to OldBaldy1701E (Reply #9)

Sat Mar 15, 2025, 03:50 PM

Mar 15

I could have taken the easy route and allowed, say, my father to make me into his Gallatea, the perfect daughter. He did the same thing to my sister, and she succumbed to the point of ridiculously asking to him to find her a husband as she failed on her own initiative. (Fortunately, my BIL came into the picture before disaster occurred.) The pressure I endured was incredible. But I prevailed.

I avoided becoming a "People Pleaser" and I own my life.