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<blockquote data-quote="witzend" data-source="post: 199705" data-attributes="member: 99"><p>Thanks Suz. That was the 14th baby step on my part. It was enough for this calendar year. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> I've done two in the last two weeks.</p><p></p><p>PS - No, I didn't really count them. </p><p></p><p>I think we have to accept no one really knows what other people lived with when they grew up. No one knows who other people's families were or are, or how they were or are treated. No one anywhere knows for certain what another person is inside or what made them that way. But we know our families.</p><p></p><p>My father did not know that my mother sent a note to me. She does not speak for him as part of an agreed upon conversation. No one who knows them would ever even assume that it was possible. Period. Anyone who suggests otherwise doesn't know <em>anything </em> about my family.</p><p></p><p>No mail or message likely gets through to him at all unless it was read by her and filtered through conversation to him through her. He is <em>not</em> someone you'd like to live with when he is upset. Even with a message of news he'd be interested in, or concern for his health, his <em>upset</em> could go on for months. That's his problem, and that's her problem. But I'm me, and I get to say "I'm glad you are better, I'm sorry we don't get along, and I love you."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="witzend, post: 199705, member: 99"] Thanks Suz. That was the 14th baby step on my part. It was enough for this calendar year. ;) I've done two in the last two weeks. PS - No, I didn't really count them. I think we have to accept no one really knows what other people lived with when they grew up. No one knows who other people's families were or are, or how they were or are treated. No one anywhere knows for certain what another person is inside or what made them that way. But we know our families. My father did not know that my mother sent a note to me. She does not speak for him as part of an agreed upon conversation. No one who knows them would ever even assume that it was possible. Period. Anyone who suggests otherwise doesn't know [i]anything [/i] about my family. No mail or message likely gets through to him at all unless it was read by her and filtered through conversation to him through her. He is [I]not[/I] someone you'd like to live with when he is upset. Even with a message of news he'd be interested in, or concern for his health, his [i]upset[/i] could go on for months. That's his problem, and that's her problem. But I'm me, and I get to say "I'm glad you are better, I'm sorry we don't get along, and I love you." [/QUOTE]
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