topiarystepmom
Status: The hard part is over. Happiness now is inevitable if we can just let it happen!
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- We spend a lot of time on this site - talking about the love we have for our children - How it is ever present and unconditional. My husband and I starting talking about it the other day. How we feel about each other. How in 38 years I never...
- Yesterday and today, I had phone conversations with my nephews - they are 34 and 32 years old ( I have another who is 36 - step and stairs - 2 years apart.) They are fine young men - each of them - and I am quite proud of them. The youngest 2...
- Today was not a good day – I have been missing our daughter who passed away 3 years ago – I was angry because our ED and ES – despite their advanced ages have behaved more like they are in diapers and my husband arrived at an interesting...
- I had a thought last night - When our GC was a baby we bought our ED and SIL a top of the line video camera to record all her cute baby moments. Since we lived in NH and they on LI - We thought it would be great to see how she was growing and...
- If you haven't seen the HBO version of MIldred Pierce I highly recommend that you see it ! Mildred is the epitomy of a PEACE member and goes to great lengths to please her ungracious and abusive daughter - to the extreme!Warning - The movie is a 6...
- I finally think I have figured out why life has been so much better since my husband and I terminated our relationship with our ED.Someone wrote this on my facebook page - : "I loved what Mary Richards said so simply in the final episode of 'Mary...
- Hi FolksI was reading a new novel by Lisa See - "Dreams of Joy"...a story of a mother who follows her runaway daughter to communist china during the early 1960's. She is not really her mother, but a loving aunt who raised her as her own -...
- First, let me apologize for the length of this post - I am reposting a composite of several comments I made to a posting called A Different Perspective, which recounted the sad story of a friend who was faced with the decision to pull the plug and...
- Hi Everybody - Every get the feeling like a rock is rolling around in your stomach? I get that way sometimes - I know that it is anxiety - pure and simple but it isstill disconcerting no matter the reason.IT happened to me yesterdya...It started...
- Here we all are - the seemingly collateral damage of EC's who's main purpose in life seems to be dimissive and hurtful. In addition, we get to obsess ad infinitum on where they are, who they are with, how they are feeling, what they are thinking,...
- Thought this would put us all is a good place. A friend of mine emailed me this youtube link. I think it is a precious insight into the beauty and joy of nature. Enjoy!http://youtu.be/SkY03n0_sD8
- Hey folks - I just had a thought - Do we make excuses for our EC's behavior? I often hear references to the possible mental challenges they have - LIke BiPolar disorder - which is a specifically diagnosed illness. If our children has been...
- Someone sent this to me today in an email - thought I'd share it with all of you:Work with joy. Pray with love. Dream from your heart.Share what you have. Live Simply. Love deeply.Thank God always.Isn't that nice?
- Help - this is the second time I have done this - I clicked the submit twice (I usuallydouble click theicons on my laptop and then when it didn't respond right away, I did it again.I am so sorry to make extra work for who ever administrates this...
- Today I had a thought - I was making a salad for dinner and it occurred to me that it had been many hours since I had written a reply to Gardenofgiving. Since then I hadn't thought once of our ED and the problems we had with her. I did a bunch of...