Those are some powerful insights, especially about the possibility of backlash from caregiver burnout possibly being responsible for some of your mother's behavior.   I hope your reflections lead you to a place of peace and acceptance, whether or not you feel any action is required.

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Time to bore you with an overly detailed account of my Tennis Elbow 4 career so far.   If you followed my previous challenge, you'll know that I had to restart my career in the game, because an update in the mods that I run had caused a conflict in my savegames - a conflict that arose from me modifying some files myself last year.   So,last weekend I started over from scratch. I'm playing as "young me", a 13-year-old tennis player who is starting as an unranked junior in 1995. Young TimovieMan is a counter-puncher that mainly plays from the baseline, loves to use the opponent's power to outpace him, and enjoys making his opponent run all over the court (mainly so he won't have to run so much himself). He's fast, has good stamina, and is well-balanced in his service, forehand and backhand. His biggest weaknesses are returning big servers, and net play because he has no net presence and poor volleying skills. That's why he prefers to remain at the baseline, but in turn, that makes him somewhat vulnerable to drop shots.   The game starts in 1995, so with the gift of foresight, young TimovieMan will work his way through the junior rankings in the first seasons, start making headway in the futures tournaments and then the challenger tour before going pro. At that point, he'll want to compete with Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi, then Gustavo Kuerten, then Lleyton Hewitt, and then spend the rest of his career butting heads with Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic.   Of course, I play *full* matches, so this will take a VERY long time.   As a 13-year-old junior, I'm limited to 12 tournaments in the entire season, so I'll be playing 1 tournament per month in 1995.   I started January 1995 by joining the grade D junior tournament in Arlon, Belgium. For some reason, despite being in my home country, I didn't get a wildcard for the main event, so had to play qualifying matches. I comfortably won my first two, but the last qualifying match was against an opponent who was a couple of years older and who had FAR better stats. He mopped the floor with me 6-0 6-0, keeping me from the main event. With his stats, I had him pegged for the tournament win, but he lost in the quarter-finals to a player with similar stats and who did win the tournament. That quarter-final match was the only "even" match the winner played...   In early February, I joined the qualifiers for the grade D tournament in Bromma, Sweden. A similar scenario played out: I won my first two qualifiers before losing to Nicolas Tourte in the final qualifying match. It was a close 3-set slog, though. I won the first set 6-4, but lost the second in the tie-break, at which point my opponent started outplaying me tactically and won the final set 0-6. Nicolas Tourte would go on to play the final of the main event, where he lost to the other player who had gone through the qualifiers. A certain Swiss player called Roger Federer - also 13 years old at that time. 😇 Fun fact: Roger Federer is two weeks younger than me. 😁   In the beginning of March, I played the grade D tournament in Frederiksberg, Denmark. Got through the qualifiers easily this time around and didn't have all that much opposition in the main event either. My first grade D main event, and I won it immediately, only losing two games per match. This win propelled me to the 250th spot in the junior world ranking.   With this win in the bag and the jump in the ranking, it was time to tackle the grade C tournaments. I joined the grade C tournament in Chisinau, Moldova. Had to go through the qualifiers as well, as the second seed - just shy of a direct entry to the main event. Won my first two qualifiers but lost the final one against a fast and hard-hitting defender who could outpace and outhit me, and who won 6-1 6-1.   In May, I went to Antalya, Turkey, for the grade C junior tournament there. No qualifiers this time around, but direct entry to the main event. Won my first two matches comfortably, but then faced an aggressive serve-and-volley player in the semi-finals, Israeli player Andy Ram. It took me a while to come to grips with his play but could keep pace with my own service game. At 4-4 in the first set, I finally managed to break him and won the set 6-4. Won the second set 6-2 to advance to the finals. Faced a similar serve-and-volley player in the final but had a slightly easier time. I won the tournament with a 6-1 6-4 final match. This grade C win put me in the top 100 of the junior rankings.   So, now it's time for the bigger junior tournaments. I entered the qualifiers for the junior Roland Garros grand slam, a AA-grade tournament. Wish me luck!

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