Family & Friends of Bipolar Support Group
This community is dedicated to parents, siblings, grandparents, other relatives and friends of someone who is Bipolar. The purpose of this community is to help families and friends develop greater patience and understanding, as well as maintain a positive, caring relationships with those diagnosed as Bipolar.
I think my father is trying to hurt me. His gf and him both use DS and I think they used it the wrong way. My brother, whom I was the closest to in my family just past away December, 12th. I'm having a hard enough time trying to deal with this. My father has'nt always been there for me and I think it's due to his addiction and bi-polar. His gf is also bi-polar. I feel like my child hood mainly consisted of broken promises. My sister, brother and I were left in foster care to fend for ourselves. Dealing with my brother's passing right now has come to a hault due to a nasty, offending journal entry that was open to alot of people for a period of about 2-3 weeks. This journal entry was written by my Dad's gf of about 6-7 months. She explains my brother's death and then goes onto bash my mother, by saying she's a whore. I don't have that good of relationship with her but I think that my Dad's gf has no right to do this. She also says that my mom's side of the family basically had no right to sit farther up in the funeral home than my Dad's side. Then she went on saying that my Uncle should'nt receive part of my brother's ashes.I told her how I felt without showing my true anger and my Dad replied to me sticking up for my grandparents by saying when they took us in, they could'nt wait to get rid of us. which is total BS. He's being totally childish and instead of rectifying the situation, making it worse and intentionally going out of his way to hurt my feelings. I know my brother would not want this. My father says I'm wrong and basically am just like my mother.He says I'm wrong and owe him an apology.Does he even know right from wrong? I know he has a lot of guilt for what he's done in the past but I'm not gonna walk on eggshells for him anymore. Us kids have way more hurt from all of this and I'm sick of him saying poor me all the time. My sister even agrees with me about all of this and says it's not right and it's disrespectful on more than one level.She hates my mom and seems to think my dad's gf just did this due to jealousy. I have always been the one in the family to talk to everyone and my caring heart is only coming back to bite me. Currently I'm not talking to either of my parents and I wish I was like my brother and sister by trusting their foster parents. Instead I believed my parents and it's done nothing but hold me back. It feels like they're always finding more ways to hurt me. Should I just let go of them?
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I miss traveling with my husband. Has anyone found a specific site regarding cruising for widow/widowers or any sightseeing trips. Not interested in being with couples and kids,,,I realize a cruise ship will have a portion size of families and couples, but perhaps they also put together a part of the cruise ship for groups of widows/widowers????
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A friend sent this to me..As far as I can see, grief will never truly end.It may become softer overtime, more gentleand some days will feel sharp.But grief will last as long as Love does - ForeverIt's simply the way the absence of your loved onemanifests in your heart. A deep longing accompaniedby the deepest Love some days. The heavy fog mayreturn and the next day, it may recede.Once again, it's...
My best friend committed suicide over 10 years ago, and I remember the funeral, b/c his dad left the family with his secretary and walked out. There was always inner strife with the family and when the funeral came, there was no end to the shameless displays of 'I should sit here' and 'What is that tramp doing here?' when all he would've wanted was for everyone to get along just for those couple of hours. Disgraceful. And it can envelope you and tear you apart if you let it.
Just know that your brother looks down on you and he knows what you do. I'm sure he also knows that you are hurting and wouldn't want you to feel that way. The best thing you can do for yourself is to pay proper respect to him by living your life to the fullest and being happy. I hope that you do.
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