It is easy to judge survivors who have created distance from, or no contact with, their family. It’s easy to judge an experience that one has never traveled. It’s easy to judge because outsiders do not have the full context on anyone else’s life. These outsiders don’t know what is going through a survivor’s mind or heart, let alone the events that have shaped them into the person they are today.
It is easy to be egotistical and unkind. It easy to attack survivors and call them liars. It is easy to attack the books they read, the therapists who are helping them navigate how to protect themselves from their abusive family. It is easy to attack the social media experts survivors turn to when they have nowhere else to go for support. It is easy to claim that survivors who have cut off from their families have been encouraged and manipulated to do by these experts.
Our abusive family members and their flying monkeys will always do what is easy; attack and judge. They consistently take the way that requires the least amount of effort, accountability and self-examination.
Remember, you are worth far more than the easy way out.
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