"Our relationship deteriorated even as I suffered crushing guilt over what they were doing for me. Yet I was certain I could turn everything around."
"Eventually I went through bankruptcy followed by foreclosure. I was fired from my job for not being able to keep up with the ever-changing metrics."
"They picked apart my life and told me everything I was doing wrong as a parent but offered nothing in terms of concrete solutions or support."
"Upon her return, she told me she'd been sexually assaulted while she was at the treatment facility. Guilt for what she'd been through vied with an impotent sense of rage."
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