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A stab of guilt, I could use some support...........
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<blockquote data-quote="scent of cedar" data-source="post: 574677" data-attributes="member: 1721"><p>I think it's important ~ vitally important, even ~ for us to remember that what is happening to us is a personal devastation. To need to learn to turn our own children away is gut-wrenching. We all deal with that knowlwedge in our own way, but that doesn't change this into something easy or even, survivable. I am not who I was before this happened to my family. I will never know the confidence that comes so naturally to a mother who has not survived the fire I have ~ the fire every one of us has walked through, all the normal, everyday things we all juggle in one arm and our raging, defiant, broken difficult children in the other.</p><p></p><p>We ARE warriors, here. We never give up, we never stop fighting, we never stop trying to know how to make this right.</p><p></p><p>I understand that I sound like I am whining. Actually, I'm not. Unless our awareness is crystal clear, we will be defeated by our losses. There is not a one of us here who doesn't remember who she thought she was raising ~ who didn't see that young man or woman so clearly, in the child in her arms. We are grieving, we are raging, we are half-dead.</p><p></p><p>But we are surviving.</p><p></p><p>And we are bringing our children through it, somehow, some way, too. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow. Maybe never. But you will never see one of us give up. Not for long.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="scent of cedar, post: 574677, member: 1721"] I think it's important ~ vitally important, even ~ for us to remember that what is happening to us is a personal devastation. To need to learn to turn our own children away is gut-wrenching. We all deal with that knowlwedge in our own way, but that doesn't change this into something easy or even, survivable. I am not who I was before this happened to my family. I will never know the confidence that comes so naturally to a mother who has not survived the fire I have ~ the fire every one of us has walked through, all the normal, everyday things we all juggle in one arm and our raging, defiant, broken difficult children in the other. We ARE warriors, here. We never give up, we never stop fighting, we never stop trying to know how to make this right. I understand that I sound like I am whining. Actually, I'm not. Unless our awareness is crystal clear, we will be defeated by our losses. There is not a one of us here who doesn't remember who she thought she was raising ~ who didn't see that young man or woman so clearly, in the child in her arms. We are grieving, we are raging, we are half-dead. But we are surviving. And we are bringing our children through it, somehow, some way, too. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow. Maybe never. But you will never see one of us give up. Not for long. [/QUOTE]
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