Was there something in your life that might have changed who you are today

My mother divorced my father when I was 5 and, 6 months later, rushed into a second marriage with a handsome, abusive alcoholic.
He went through a program and got sober when I was 15, and they remained married until his death. But the 10 years of abuse definitely shaped me. Probably sounds odd, but I'm actually grateful for some of it. Or, maybe I'm grateful for the ways I learned to cope with it. Maybe I'm a kinder person than I might have been.
 


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