am trying to process through something i just read online that was really disturbing to me.  i thought i had a good handle on things 'round here, but when the words pop off the page and bullet into your heart, it's stark:  there was no handle.

it isn't the use of slang or foul language.  i am savvy enough to read between the lines and am sad to learn my boy's been hurting.

how could i miss the signs?  so intuitive, i think i am.  and yet, i have someone in my own home that has been struggling for a long time. 

[this hasn't been the first time.]

paradigm shift.