Ian said
"We know from personal contact with EB members that some of them are indeed in this beastly position, obliged to live a lie and well aware that they are doing so, but I have often wondered how common this is"
The "would love to leave but just can't leave" line is sometimes hard to hear for those of us who left and lost everything, and struggled through years of darkness following it. I think it would more accurately be "but are not strong enough to leave" or "but don't want to give up what they have to leave".
While leaving can be profoundly difficult in ways that can't really be accurately expressed, and while it is true that in adjusting to the outside world at times we felt pushed right to the edge, and while it is true that there remains an aching pain for the ruptured relationships that will likely never heal, nonetheless leaving was indescribably "worth it' and I wouldn't trade my lot today, now free and no longer living a lie, for anything.
Post # 25394 - Posted 3 months ago
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