How does this writer talk to their mom about their abusive childhood if she denies it all?
When I was a child, my mother was abusive. She would threaten to send me away. She would slap me across the face or hit me with a wooden spoon in a rage, and she constantly gave me the silent treatment, without explanation, sometimes for days.I do not think my younger brother got any of that. It was not horrific child abuse , but it shaped me, and I am still angry about it. I am now 50, and she is 75. We get along okay, though I still walk on eggshells around her.
There is also a high probability that if you seek her out for a walk or two down memory lane, she will continue to gaslight you into believing that the events of your own life happened mainly in your imagination or that you somehow deserved her abuse.
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