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Eric, welcome to the program.

Hi, I wanted to call you about a question I had about my relationship with my mother.

To just give it like a short backstory,

I was raised with her by she and my father. I lived with my grandparents until I was about

eight years old and then after that I traveled back and forth between my dad and stepmom and my mom

and stepdad but I lived primarily with my mom and stepfather. And shortly after I graduated high school, like about a month afterwards, she, I had

started taking classes at a trade school for medical coding and I was at school and she

called me and she said you need to come home right now and when I came home all my belongings were in the yard and she and my stepfather came

outside and they they told me you haven't been part of our family for a long time so you need to find somewhere else to live.

So luckily I...

What were they pointing to? What were they describing? What behaviors were they describing?

Well, I don't think they really... They hadn't lied to me for a really long time. I think.

Okay, can you slow down and stop?

Stop.

Yeah.

They must have been discussing this for weeks, if not months.

And in their minds, there were certain behaviors of yours that caused them to take this step.

Tell me what those were, please.

There was a lot of fighting going on at home. I mean there had been fighting for years and years.

And from their point of view, how did you contribute to the fighting?

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