Originally Posted by wyldblyss

I have a slightly different point of view. I understand that family issues can be your biggest drain mentally. Walking away seems so easy. Keeping yourself around only people that keep you positive seems the most simple way to go.

What I have learned though, is bad times teach you things good things never could. Bad times toughen you up, they prepare you to meet a firestorm head on and stand up to it and survive.

I don't think I would change all the hard times I have been through if I could because they gave me the strength to face other things in my life.

I do know that sometimes you have to turn away for your own sanity, but I also know that sometimes you have to stay to learn how to deal with crap and not let it destroy you.