• insaneinthemembrane@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        More in the right direction than the wrong but still not the right direction entirely. It needs to come from within to be strong and lasting.

        Plus that isn’t what’s happening here, he’s being a child who is also being emotionally and sexually manipulated.

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      4 months ago

      It can be unimaginably, uncomprehendingly better than just the ‘I don’t care about myself’ state tho, if that is the best they can manage or perhaps even as a step on the gradual path of self-worth/healing - that is amazing!

      Don’t dismiss ‘getting slightly better’ as a failure bcs it’s not immediately resulting in the prefect best-case end scenario/state.

      We are all on a journey.