The article addresses a letter from a woman struggling with the emotional impact of long-term abuse from her mother, which continues to affect her relationships, including with her children. Despite her family's insistence that she 'let it go' because her mother is deceased, the advice stresses that the trauma of abuse, especially when it starts in childhood, is not something that can simply be brushed aside. The columnist suggests family therapy as a possible way for the woman’s children to understand her pain.
Your children may mean well, but they are clueless about what the effects of physical, emotional and sexual abuse can be.
I'm not sure your children will ever fully understand why you can't forgive what your mother and siblings did to you without the help of a family therapist.
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