I was reading a book on abnormal psychology and it described a woman who complained that she had to beat her toddler with a belt to get them to eat. She told her mother this and her mom said “Yes that’s what I had to do with you.” At that point the other shoe dropped and the woman realized she had learned a pattern of coaching the child into an eating disorder,. Even though she’d been blaming the kid, right there she realized she was somewhere in a grey zone between being a shitty parent and an outright child abuser.
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