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Don't know which way to go, could use some advice..............
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<blockquote data-quote="DammitJanet" data-source="post: 513603" data-attributes="member: 1514"><p>RE...I know I havent responded much to you because my life has been a bit well...over hectic in the past several months and I have let my duties here lag a bit. That really is not right of me. I have been reading your posts though and it has been just pretty hard for me to find the words that I thought were going to help you because your daughter is older than most of ours but really that shouldnt matter. Suddenly while reading this post it dawned on me why your posts have struck such a chord with me and why I have struggled with them. I see myself as your daughter. </p><p></p><p>Once I left home on July 15th 1983, I was never, ever allowed to go home again. I could have been dying and neither of my parents would have helped me. My dad did help with small things over the years after he figured out I was becoming more responsible but in my twenties and even early 30's, he never sent me a dime. He would send me clothes for the kids, he gave me a car he would only get $500 on a trade in, and then one time I borrowed money and paid it back and we started to trust each other again. </p><p></p><p>None of us knew I had mental illnesses as a child. None of us talked about the abuse that happened to me. In the last 20 years or so we got really close. Well my dad and I did even though we never talked about anything that ever happened to me. I know he wanted to divorce my mom when I was a toddler and take me away but the courts would have never allowed that back then. My life would have been so much better I think. My dad died a year ago but we never talked about anything that could have possibly been wrong in life. As far as I told him, my life was peachy keen.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DammitJanet, post: 513603, member: 1514"] RE...I know I havent responded much to you because my life has been a bit well...over hectic in the past several months and I have let my duties here lag a bit. That really is not right of me. I have been reading your posts though and it has been just pretty hard for me to find the words that I thought were going to help you because your daughter is older than most of ours but really that shouldnt matter. Suddenly while reading this post it dawned on me why your posts have struck such a chord with me and why I have struggled with them. I see myself as your daughter. Once I left home on July 15th 1983, I was never, ever allowed to go home again. I could have been dying and neither of my parents would have helped me. My dad did help with small things over the years after he figured out I was becoming more responsible but in my twenties and even early 30's, he never sent me a dime. He would send me clothes for the kids, he gave me a car he would only get $500 on a trade in, and then one time I borrowed money and paid it back and we started to trust each other again. None of us knew I had mental illnesses as a child. None of us talked about the abuse that happened to me. In the last 20 years or so we got really close. Well my dad and I did even though we never talked about anything that ever happened to me. I know he wanted to divorce my mom when I was a toddler and take me away but the courts would have never allowed that back then. My life would have been so much better I think. My dad died a year ago but we never talked about anything that could have possibly been wrong in life. As far as I told him, my life was peachy keen. [/QUOTE]
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