Jack Albrecht
1 min readJun 24, 2020

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There is someone in my extended family but no longer in my life that I wish you could convince of the truth of this. Almost everyone has some childhood trauma. Mine is minor compared to yours.

My relative has decided that, "I've had trauma. I won't deal with it, you have to deal with it." After that attitude tore my life apart twice within a few years I had to cut them off. That causes problems as well, but 100x better than having to react to the random but recurrent irrational alchohol- and drug-induced tirades and demands, and particularly the knowledge that one could occur at any time.

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Jack Albrecht
Jack Albrecht

Written by Jack Albrecht

US expatriate living in the EU; seeing the world from both sides of the Atlantic.

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