hot take: moms need to learn how to listen to and comfort their daughters without making everything about their own traumas
a classic example
daughter: hey this thing you do bothers me very much and i wish you wouldn’t do it
mom: well my parents abused me and im not even as bad as they were and i had to sit through it so you gotta sit through whatever i do to you too
a common variant
mom: well i’m having a really hard time right now and you know that i’m doing my best and that i didn’t mean to hurt you ergo you are in fact the asshole for asking me to consider your feelings and change my behavior during this hard hard time i’m having
“There are a number of things he could do now but it’s been nearly three years; Hannibal has learned to pick his battles. Will capitulates to almost everything Hannibal wants, sooner or later. But on this front, Hannibal never wins so much as a skirmish.”
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