"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

What would you do, if someone you loved and trusted turned on you? Turned on you so much that they even lied and had the capability to make family members and others unsure what to think. How would this love one have so much power? This person would turn out to be your mother. Your own mother was the one who told this lie? Or better yet, be so good at emotional disposition that without even speaking have the capability to act as if they were the victim. When in reality, this is an act put on so well, that the actual victim(s) will be victimized the next time they are seen by who ever witnessed her drama.

It wouldn't matter if the true victim knew the liar's audience. Being whispered about behind ones back is felt. No matter how many people try to convince you that you are being paranoid? You know that whenever you walk down your street, shop the neighborhood grocery store, when you are at the local park introducing yourself to the parent of a child your child is playing with. You know it's not paranoia. You've been spoken about, just by looking at that facial reaction after you have said your name. Your intuition is right. You know this because the next time you are at the park your feelings where confirmed by another parent. One, who was brave enough to ask "Are you are related to?" One who had the courage to tell you?

You cringe while listing to bits of what was expressed, You are sadden by the reminder of manipulated situations that you grew up with. Then at the same time relieved. Because you where not imaging the negativity that you felt. What you felt was real.

You would think that what is real is truth and the saying "truth will set you free." Well in your case it will be a burden. Being under the sole care of this person for most of your life, what you felt, what was real will never be believed to be truth by anyone other then yourself. People who where once tiring to convince you that you were paranoid, will always look the other way, excuse the liar, or blame you by informing you that it was your reactions that caused the manipulated situations. Why, because it's easier for them to do so.

Then the worse happen. She would find a partner who would go along with this drama, finding the avenues he could control. Gaining more control with each year. Living the: "World according

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