This is how I want to live.

[Metalhead]

I want to be physically active and eat a healthy diet. That means rejecting unhealthy foods if my family tries to serve them to me.

I want to bring back my website and be a prolific hobbyist film critic.

I want to go to school PT to improve my writing skills.

I want to be a truly productive worker at my job.

I want to spend some weekend time going on day trips and getting out of my house. Visiting museums, going to parks, hitting the cinemas.

I want to budget to go to more live music shows.

I want to get myself in decent shape and join a day hike group.

I want to reach a point with my blood family where their words and actions no longer get a visceral reaction out of me. Or any reaction at all.

I want an emotional divorce from toxicity.

I can have all of this and more.

 

[Judge]

I want a divorce from my blood family.

Fixed that one for ya. One which may enable many others and even more not yet on your list. You need to distance yourself from such toxicity. Don't expect them to make that move for you.

It's one you must do all on your own. One that might in fact be a "lynch pin" to being a happier person.

 

[Metalhead]

Fixed that one for ya. One which may enable many others and even more not yet on your list. You need to distance yourself from such toxicity. Don't expect them to make that move for you.

It's one you must do all on your own. One that might in fact be a "lynch pin" to being a happier person.

True. I need to sever the umbilical noose. My mother has been strangling me with it for far too long.

 

[Judge]

True. I need to sever the umbilical noose. My mother has been strangling me with it for far too long.

Indeed. Not an easy thing to accomplish, either. I get that as well. I just don't think a person can emotionally flourish with that sort of "cloud" over their heads so often.