This is so true. They lied so much to our parents... yet they intended to teach us values, such as honesty and integrity. How hypocritical can you get?
I'm sorry but I don't feel that sorry for my parents who payed 40,000 US dollars a year to have their daughter abused. I understand the pain that I've put my mother through and the fact that she was desperate and she saw Elan as the best solution in order to save my life. However, "understanding" isn't the same as "forgetting". I've even forgiven my parents for sending me to that hellhole, but the pain, no, Jordan, I haven forgotten it. The memories of the abuse, the humilliation and the repression are still very clear in my mind. I don't blame my parents for it, yet I don't feel sorry for them either, they've agreed to it, I didn't get to voice my opinion in such decision.
Of course that doesn't stop me from having a great loving relationship with my family, we are very close. I don't hold Elan against them, they don't hold my past agaisnt me, we respect the fact that we are all human-beings and we make mistakes.
Peace!
Marina
