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My intuition hints that in doing things as I did, exploring the past without rejecting them, I seem to have released them from some remorse.
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After getting my med records and confronting my mother with them, I was amazed at how our relationship changed for the better. She told me right then that a great burden had been lifted from her by no longer having to carry the lies she had told me. Ironically, when she was alive, she never shared with my father some of my revelations claiming he was in denial. But since then, he has read the correspondance we had over it and has also come around and that has transformed our relationship as well. Secrets in any family are never good and it's sad that some parents will continue to carry them thinking it is for the best.