First, I’m sorry you went through this. But second, when raising children today we’re told constantly to validate their feelings—parents are never told about the skills required to get on with it, when it’s time to say enough is enough, and how to teach our kids that feelings are valid but they don’t always trump everything else. There’s a middle point between wildly out of control emotions and suppression. And adults are really just parents to themselves :). We all need lessons in regulating!