hollygrove
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- As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, Mark is moving our double parlor all around so he can have "his office" in the larger room while I move into the smaller one. We also have a smallish room off to the side that he's been using as an office for 22...
- A few years ago my ever-so -wise mother told me to get my own credit card so I'd have my own credit, esp since Mark doesn't support me financially in any way . I got a Visa card and religiously paid it off every month. I had a dental emergency...
- I was reading through journals last week and came across two days when I woke my daughters up at 4a.m. to get ready for school. My oldest looked at her clock, and told me it wasn't time. Okay for that... I recently spent some time with this...
- This past Wednesday I managed to twist my ankle. I didn't like the way it looked on Thursday, so went to the doctor. Sure enough, I've broken a small bone on my fibula. I'm on bedrest (except for the bathroom ) and have 3 weeks for this to heal,...
- Hi, I just paid my credit card off today. I had always paid it off each month, but then had a dental emergency, and had to put 600. on it. It was either that or empty my savings. I chose to pay in installments , and it seemed to work. I'm in the...
- I am making a mountain of index cards ( and finding myself saying "how did I stay this long?") . I've been depending on journals I"ve written , but there are blocks of time that I didn't write. This afternoon , for some reason, memories are...
- Hi, I hope it's okay to write here, but noticed the name of the group and thought it might fit my situation. First, let me explain that I'm disabled ( 3 head injuries ) and unable to work ( despite Social Work degree). I get 600 a month from...
- Hi, Mark is a verbal abuser in every sense of the word; I have index cards full of things he's said. Lately ( the past 8 months) he doesn't say Anything to me unless it has to do with who needs the car, something about our daughters, etc - the...
- Hi, I live with a very controlling man . ( Am currently developing a plan to leave ) . My social worker says on a scale of 1 to 10, he's about a 12.5. (Yes, she's met him ) . I was on facebook a couple of days ago and found the perfect response for...
- I have been wondering why I'm constantly writing in my journal, and why my posts here are so long. Realized today (with the help of my doctor) that I have hypergraphia ( compulsion to write) due to my seizure medicine not working at its best. We've...
- Hmm, where to start. Hubby and I have a 10 room house. Downstairs is a small office ( where I'm allowed to have a table for my computer). There is also a "double parlor " ; one room for a dining room, and another for living room. ( We don't have a...
- I said in my first post that "something" had happened that made me start to plan to leave. I now remember that I went to the shelf to get a steel wool pad ( Brillo). The box wasn't there. I have a brain injury and don't remember things well, but I...
- I hope it's okay to post a few lines of prose here. It's my favorite piece because it describes my life so well. It was written by Langston Hughes in the mid - 1940s in the Negro dialect. I'll just pull out some of the lines. I'd be interested if...
- Hi, After 27 years of a verbally and emotionally abusive marriage ( with 3 "smacks" added in ), I"m finally thinking of leaving my husband. I've gone so far as to start a journal to keep track of advice, etc. Something just "clicked " 3 weeks ago ,...
- Hi, I'm so glad to have found this group. My neurologist calls me his veteran because I have had 4 tbis; he's been involved with three of them. The tbis range from meningitis ( my first) to a severe coutre coup concussion ( recent ) , with brain...