My eyelids tighten, my mouth puckers to the left, and my head tilts, as though I’m asking her to clarify. “When you said you’re attracted to me,” she continues.īack in session three Lori was trying to build my self-esteem, the lack of which is one of the reasons I’m in treatment.
Within the confines of my family, I’ve always been the biggest target of ridicule. We all throw verbal darts around as though we’re engaged in a massive, drunken tournament at a bar, but the most poisonous ones seem to hit me the most often, admittedly somewhat a consequence of my own sensitivity.