Our Amazing Protective Brains

I amazed at how the brain actually does protect us. How did I not remember my husband eighteen months ago throwing my daughter out the front door into the snow because he said she did everything wrong. She tells me the baby (age 3 yo) was on my lap when it happened, and my older son remembers he was scared that Daddy would throw him out too... but my brain had blocked it out. How could any sane person do something like that?! I must have decided it was a dream....

And now as it comes back I realize that I was completely astounded that he would actually do such a thing. I couldn't believe it was happening. Surely he would stop before he got to the door. Surely this was just another of his empty threats....

I wonder how many other events there have been like that... maybe it is better if I don't go down that road. It seems to me that that road could only lead to proof of how bad a mother I am. And I know that is not true! And I can look back and see that my children were never hurt by him... only scared to death that they would be.