How I Found Out I Am Sane
One day I went to the library to check out a paranormal type book. Shelved among the ghosts and goblins, I found a book called The Verbally Abusive Man: Can He Change? by Patricia Evans. It was obviously on the wrong shelf, yet I reached for it. "Maybe I need to see this for some reason..." I thought.
I started flipping through the pages. I noticed headings like [He Says] "It's All Your Fault" and "Sometimes Counselors Just Don't Know." But the section that got my attention was in the appendix - Verbally Abusive Statements.
The list of words and phrases on those pages perfectly summed up the content of almost every conversation I had shared with him for as long as I could remember. I remember my heart stopping and my knees buckling.
In an instant I knew the truth. It took about five minutes of reading the book there on the library aisle floor before my brain caught up with what my soul had known all along...I AM NOT CRAZY.
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