[ SECRET POST #2330 ]

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #2330 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

01.


__________________________________________________



02.


__________________________________________________



03.


__________________________________________________



04.


__________________________________________________



05.


__________________________________________________



06.


__________________________________________________



07.


__________________________________________________



08.


__________________________________________________



09.


__________________________________________________



10.


__________________________________________________



11.


__________________________________________________



12.


__________________________________________________



13.


__________________________________________________



14.


__________________________________________________



15.


__________________________________________________




















Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 068 secrets from Secret Submission Post #333.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

The point which I believe is frequently made is exactly that Gothel does love Rapunzel in 'her own way'. Just that that way is manipulative, toxic, and generally unhealthy.

Which is, in turn, why examining the relationship is cathartic for those of us in that situation. Few can claim, or even pretend to themselves, that their mothers never experience any feelings of love towards them, and, particularly as a child, it's difficult to reconcile 'She's my mother and she loves me' with 'She's an abuser and she's hurting me'.

For a child to realize that this is possible - that it doesn't make them a bad person to fear or even hate a parent who loves them in 'their own way' - is not, I think, a bad message. It would have spared me some heartache if I could have understood it a few years earlier. The abuse would still have happened, but I wouldn't have been stuck mentally abusing myself out of guilt for my feelings of anger and pain.

That enough projection for ya?