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Ask Amy: Pandemic experience calls for resilience

Amy Dickinson, Tribune Content Agency on

At some point, we in North America seem to have absorbed the belief that life was supposed to be easy for us.

It is not.

Surely the pandemic experience has connected us to other humans throughout time, who have experienced war, hunger, trauma, and dislocation.

This is tough, but it is not the worst.

Personally, you can see your scars as evidence that you cannot heal, or you can emerge wounded, but determined to grow.

I say – lead with your scars; they are proof of your humanity.

 

Dear Amy: Six years ago, after a gathering with my husband of 30 years, his mom, his two sisters, and a brother-in-law, one of the sisters wrote me a scathing letter.

In it, she enumerated all of my faults as she perceived them, said I do not contribute anything to the family, and said that she and the rest of the family despise me.

She admitted that I have a wonderful marriage, although she didn't understand how that was possible.

The letter felt so toxic, so vicious and so unreal that I shredded it immediately.

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