Re: tolerate verbal abuse from grown up kids?

"How long will it take?" LOLOLOL!!!! I laugh because I asked my therapist this same question, each session. I mean that I was "one of those" clients, and I did everything that she suggested, did the work, I was diligent, and I didn't feel as if I was getting any better, at all.

One day, I was driving to some sort of appointment, and I heard a radio broadcast - Science Friday - and the topic was that physicists had constructed a new atomic clock that was accurate within (I cannot remember) every 150 years.

Neato. But, what caught my attention was that the host said that scientists were unable to explain what time really was. We can measure it's passing, set our baking timers, and calculate how long it will take to get someplace, but there is no understanding or explanation for what time really is. That, for me, generated an epiphany that it didn't matter "how long" it was going to take for me to "get better." Today, I'm better than I was 10 months ago, and that's all that matters.

So, brightest blessings to you. Walking away is hard - painful if grandchildren are involved. But, for people who are that abusive, those children aren't people: they're tools to manipulate.

Again.......brightest blessings and one day at a time!