jazzlady1028
Status: Friday, 10/9 was a tougher day for me... thx. for all support.
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- Hi, all...thinking of you, and please know I'm keeping you in my prayers. There is nothing easy about all we face - and nothing easy to understand. So much of it makes absolutely no sense. So much of it is nothing short of absurd.I wonder to...
- Hi, all...thinking of you, and please know I'm keeping you in my prayers. There is nothing easy about all we face - and nothing easy to understand. So much of it makes absolutely no sense. So much of it is nothing short of absurd.I wonder to...
- Wow, all - all I can say is, here is the newest "shocker" for me with estrangement and/or mistreatment. Here I was doing OK with younger daughter, and totally estranged from older one (not to say things aren't strained with older one - & may always...
- Dear all...well, this for me is a new development. Better? Worse? I don't really know - at least, not yet.I finally made some contact with my ED (older daughter) after sending another text or two, another e-mail, and another v-mail, all...
- I need not say much more for this topic, that we don't already know & feel...BUT...let me add that I wonder just how many parents are in this unfortunate "boat." Could it be a million or more???...What do you think??Also - I discovered that there...
- And that is the sad part - I mean, if it were a friend of ours or a love interest, it would be easier or at least somewhat easier to let them go. I know that a love interest can be tough to let go of...but you always feel there can be someone else...
- I thought of something interesting...that we as parents just don't think about when we are tending non-stop, 24/7, to our kids as they are growing up. That is...our reality is totally different through those years, than theirs. They don't have a...
- I wish, with this rampant "scourge" on such a huge percent of our society's millions of parents of adult (and also teen) children - wherein so much emotional pain is heaped on their once-loving parents with no end in sight...and we only have one...
- - to let them completely "call the shots" to where you are nothing more than a "puppet on a string"? And if you make a "peep" of any kind, they will lash out, tell you off/"diss" you, and run over you like you're roadkill? That's what I face with...
- We know that another adult child could decide to estrange from us at any time of their choosing, if we have another one, or more than one other (I have one other - younger daughter - older one is the ED) - they can easily have the feeling of being...
- I'm just wondering if you've been told this, ever. I was told that by my 28-1/2-year old ED, in May of 2013 or so when she estranged herself from me based on her "devotee," all-exalting father telling her to pass the message on to me I had made him...
- I've read some poems here on these discussion boards and they moved me so much that I created one...but it's ongoing, actually. It's specifically about my ED, and it has a lot of rhymes because I've written a lot of song lyrics over the past 30...
- Anyone else have a similar story? If so, it would be nice to commiserate with you and try to "stand strong"...There are so many "flakes" in general, in life; and then, there are those considerate ones who try and do right by people, who are...
- Anyone else have a similar story? If so, it would be nice to commiserate with you and try to "stand strong"...There are so many "flakes" in general, in life; and then, there are those considerate ones who try and do right by people, who are...
- When an ED or ES acts like you're not worth it because you don't or can't do anything to elevate their "status," it's like - well, Geez, they only want you in their life if you can be either their adoring fan as if they were a celebrity, or their...