It's different for me though, and how I feel is 100% connected to my past of child sexual abuse. I didn't need my therapist to tell me this. Even though she did during our first session. Due to my lack of trust it is difficult for me to accept that someone could truly love me without any ulterior motives.
So I've been taking my Cipralex regularly now for about 7 weeks. This commercial comes on and wham, that's it. I'm done. Might as well go sleep the rest of the day.
Seeing Mike with his parents and how affectionate they were to him. The family smiling, sharing food, enjoying spending time together. I never had this with my family and never will. I feel so much pain and despair wishing I had Sunday dinners surrounded by normal siblings and loving, regular parents.
I admit, I envy families that break bread together. Believe me, I have tried to replace this void in my life with other people. Often, I am pulled toward older women, befriend them for a motherly surrogate for myself. I am a firm advocate that biological doesn't make family, necessarily. Just because you say you love someone for the sake that you share DNA markers is meaningless in my books. It is not enough for me. Relationships are what build love, trust and caring.
So much for only the Church of Latter Day Saints and Children's Hospital commercials making me breakdown. Even Mike Rowe has the power!
Tyla
For me, it is a good thing that movies, books and, yes, even commercials can make me cry. For many years, I didn't cry for very many reasons at all. I had numbed my feelings. That is how I survived a childhood of incest. Today, I can freely cry. That is a sign of growth and healing that I welcome.
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