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Roadblocks to Intimacy and Trust I: The Ambivalent Mother
By Joan Cusack Handler — 2017
We learned early on that we had no control over her moods or our own rewards or punishment. She was entirely unpredictable.
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How ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be.3
