How much of this horrible story are we obligated to share?
My husband and I are estranged from both sets of parents. It’s a long story, but it happened when our daughter was a baby and she’s never known them, though we’ve been honest with her about why they aren’t in our lives. My husband, whose family was wealthy, was brutalized, starved, and beaten, and no one ever tried to help him. My situation was somewhat better, but my mother’s behavior was cruel and bizarre, and my father enabled it. For both of us, no extended family ever came to our rescue .
We do everything we can to protect each other and our daughter, but we’re still trying, almost 10 years after our last, horrifying trauma, to live something like an ordinary life, to make friends and so on. Our daughter is very sociable and well-adjusted—fearless and funny and strong. But as she makes friends, and we meet those friends’ parents, we find ourselves in a conundrum. How much should we tell those parents about what we’ve been through? Understandably, my husband hates talking about it.
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