For some women I know, this sense of trust and self-belief later in life gave them the courage to leave dysfunctional relationships or embark on new career paths.

At home, the system has long been seen chiefly as a sad but necessary place to cast the severely disturbed or profoundly abnormal.

So interact as necessary but rid yourself of any expectation that you are going to get what a normal person would give you because this person you are dealing with is not a normal person.