Read this, and couldn’t relate more: When a family is steeped in denial, the person who is trying to say that “the emperor has no clothes on” is generally viewed negatively by those who are not willing to see what’s really going on.
Today I stand confidently in my own truth. Before I welcomed the opinions of others that didn’t live my same experience and so it was like trying to look out a window that was constantly being washed with shaving cream; clouded by confusion, misinformation, manipulation, and / or denial of others. It’s taken me a while to learn to trust myself and my gut and now that I’m there I can’t believe I spent so long allowing others to clean my windows.