Findingme's LTU5 Journal

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It's a process, findingme. and you're making steady progress. It's hard for people to change themselves even when they want to change, so you're not going to change them. A healthy relationship to have with your parents after you're an adult is one where there is respect, love, and friendship involved. It's not a relationship that should be forced as if you owe them. They will try to stomp on any boundary that you set in the beginning, but if you keep enforcing them. Your relatives will come to their senses and change the way that they treat you or they will lose you. As you continue to make progress and increase your self esteem, it won't be as painful for you to love them from a distance if that's how they insist that you treat them.