Broken Promises

Every year they promise to visit and I panic and start cleaning and then they never show up. I should be used to this coming from an alcoholic drug abusing family. But it HURTS over and over again. And each time I BELIEVE they LOVE me and they will come visit FOR REAL. But NADA.

I have come to realize what my husband has been telling me for years. "They are SCARED. You have courage," They are too scared. Remember YOU are the one that ran away from your abusers. They did not. They stayed and got abused, and still are staying and being abused, to this day." He is so right.
"Don't expect them to be able to confront that, not until they are ready and it may be NEVER."