I continue to be amazed at the amount of "I have never seen this happen and therefore it never happens" beliefs that exist online.
My stepmother used to say that to me a lot. I would share something that happened to me and she would respond “I don’t believe that”. Like I was lying about it happening.
I eventually quit telling her anything of substance.
"I don't believe that."
There is SO much power in that sentence isn't there? It's so simple. So final. So absolute. The denial is so concrete.
She taught my half sister (her daughter) to say it too. I finally can step over the rage and just walk away when she says it now.
I don’t care what she believes.
𝘽𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙛: certainty, conviction refer to acceptance of, or confidence in, an alleged fact or body of facts as true or right 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬𝙡𝙚𝙙𝙜𝙚 𝙤𝙧 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙤𝙛.
The definition needs to change and have added ...
... 𝙤𝙧 𝙗𝙚𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙞𝙣 𝙤𝙗𝙩𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙩 𝙚𝙨𝙥 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙞𝙩 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙛𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙩𝙨 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙤𝙣𝙚'𝙨 𝙋𝙍𝙀𝙁𝙀𝙍𝙍𝙀𝘿 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙘𝙚𝙥𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮.