Thanks for your input! Every day I thank God I was blessed with a partner who has come through it all with me. Through hospitalizations and Intensive Outpatient Therapy(IOP), I noticed I was a minority at visiting hours. I count my blessings often! I also have my mom as a strong supporter, even though sometimes she shorts the sheets, so to speak.
I applaude everyone who is able to find the way through the dark without a hand to hold. I think sometimes if it weren't made so easy for me, if I had to walk alone, that I would be better now for it. I am enabled, and I allow it to a certain point.
I'm not implying one is beter than the other, I go from depending on one person to another (my father, my husband), and I'm not being taught to depend on myself. I wonder if I didn't have a person, would all those therapists teach me to depend on myself?