Frenemies I have Known

I was taught to put up with enormous disrespect as a child, because my family knows nothing else about the way they parented. I have had many a frenemy but you attract positive people to yourself when you reach mature adulthood only because you need to make sure that you stay safe. Adult responsibility means kicking toxic people out of your life. Grown ups also know to stand up for themselves and not wait for others to do it for them. I’ve always been mature, and the lie that I have the emotional maturity of a 10 year old when I was 15, was an attempted gaslighting lie that went south when I said, if I’m 10, you are three. That shut up the person saying this.