richardfromnyc
Status: Completed Writing How to Deal with Estrangement/Depression. Available at http://amzn.to/20GrQib . Thanks!
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- I had been posting for several days on PEACE because I had received an email from my daughter that she is getting married but guess who will not be going to dinner. For the last 10 years I have not had much clarity or an easy way to make any...
- I have thought over all of your comments. I have made a decision based on the title. Measure for Measure.I have been treated as if i do not exist for 10 years. Surgically excised and removed from my own life, a life i had invested 20 years to...
- I dont want to respond to daughters email not inviting me to her wedding.I dont want to send a bday card to my son who has ignored every call, email, text, card and gift that I have sent the last 10 years.Frankly, I am so much pain. I want to let it...
- so I liked that idea, one of the posts responding to my emotional thrashing and walking over the brooklyn bridge thinking of a way to end the mind pain, while looking down to the east river and contemplating. Not cause i wanna hurt me, i just want...
- So I had alot of food for thought over the last few days regarding whether I should respond at all to my daughters letter, and if I did, what kind of response...As well as to my looking for a way out of the pain...and many of you mentioned that it...
- i posted yesterday asking for advice about how to handle my not being invited to my daughters wedding...tomorrow is my son's 20th bday...he has also not seen me for the last 4years...has not answered any phone calls, any bday cards, any text...
- or if my ex is a source of my kids estrangement from me, does it make sense to go to the source. she was never shy of contacting me for help whether money or legal issues and i always did my best to help...i have to say that after writing these and...
- i think this is a totally different tact from the 26 options i posted last night......but here..i am assumingthat she feels hurt emotionally and that i cannot argue this out logically with her, i am making the assumption that from her point of view,...
- i think this is a totally different tact from the 26 options i posted last night......but here..i am assumingthat she feels hurt emotionally and that i cannot argue this out logically with her, i am making the assumption that from her point of view,...
- I received this message from my 24yr old daughter yesterday:"Hey, how are you? I'm sorry that I've missed your calls, it's been really busy over here. Thank you for the wishes. We're having a very small wedding overseas, the whole family can't...
- How ironic. for so many years I towed the line...i wanted to be traditional....not lose the judaism from my family...my dad was the only survivor in the concentration camps...i thought, i shouldnt let the reason that hitler hated him die...maybe i...
- how to move on..okay i accept i have no family...i will never hear from my kids...they say inm dead...but how to move on?any woman i have met...after she finds out i have kids...and estranged..boom...thats the end of that..im so walking on eggshells...
- Yesterday, I wrote about the events leading up to my decision to stop responding to any emails, voicemails and texts from my biological family. I spelled out exactly why here. Actually that was way back in september. I was so disturbed by the whole...
- Hello all,I feel like I have really had it and I have done something the last 2 weeks which I have never done before. The short summary is that I have stopped responding to any emails which have been sent asking me to help with their business....
- I do not know about everyone else, but one of the most difficult things to deal with for me has been the questions about my kids. People that I know for many years, who are well aware of the situation, they still ask, as if some fairy came along and...