Posted by RealMe on October 24, 2007, at 23:55:27
In reply to Re: Trying to go easy, posted by rskontos on October 18, 2007, at 13:24:42
Here is the really weird thing; I used to have to host a lot of extended family gatherings on my husband's side of the family and may do it again this year for Christmas. Point is I felt hurt that I was not seeing more of my family. Was I nuts or what. Now my absent father, mentally abusive mother, and crazy(paranoid schizophrenic) physically and sexually abusive brother are all dead. And so I can never know somethings that I do not remember well. My mother and I got a long better in her latter years, but she also got senile due to a misdiagnosis. Now my only immediate family is my husband. We have no children. So, now I find holidays depressing even though my "family" was weirder than sh*t and crazy and abusive. The think is I also have some good memories as there are those too. Nothing is all one sided.
RealMe
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