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Originally posted by valkyrie
Yes, what happened in the past is the past, but nobody just gets over it. If you're in an abusive relationship for years and one day get out, you're not just over it -- what you've experienced shapes who you are and who you become. If your mom was in an abusive relationship for years, chances are that becomes part of how you are raised and how your view of the world is shaped.
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First of all, I heart valkyrie.
I want to add that events or series of events don't even have to happen in YOUR life's past for it to be relevant. I think the collective history of a people is just as important. I will never understand the holocaust, but I will always be sympathetic to it and the fact that there are issues to this very day that American Jews have to deal with as a result of the legacy of the holocaust.
The legacy of slavery also has left deep wounds on African Americans.....too numerous to list here.
I really thought this thread would end after the first post.
