Monica Padman
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If someone's in a really bad mood, I have this unreasonable desire to fix that for them and to regulate them.
And if I can't do it, I'm very uncomfortable, right?
Right, because you spent a lifetime doing that, regulating kind of other people's.
Well, that was my guess.
I'm wondering, single mom, it's like, normally dad would be in charge of that.
If mom's got an emotional issue.
She never fit that box, right?
I'd wrestle a lot with, I hated rich people.
If there were a bad guy in the world, it was rich people because I felt less than around them.
I didn't like how I felt.
It's none of their fault.
I now know that.
But, you know, I had this chip on my shoulder.
And then trying to come to terms with the reality of, oh, I'm one of those people.
That's a little discombobulating.
And there's shame around that.
You feel survivor's guilt.
It's complicated.
To just indulge your imagination.