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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 428068" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>We had a lot of bad things going on at home when my kids were teenagers, lots of conflict, lots of chaos. My then husband was an abusive, alcoholic womanizer who tried to turn both kids against me and did his best to convince them that all the problems in the family were MY fault! Things were especially bad between me and my daughter. One badly needed divorce and several years later ...</p><p> </p><p>With a little maturity and now looking at things through adults eyes, they now see things so <em>much</em> differently than they did when they were kids. They now realize what was going on and they understand the position I was in. We really don't talk about it much and there have been no apologies - none necessary. The closest we have come is when my daughter was expecting her own baby and she told me that she was hoping for a boy because she remembered what she put me through when she was a kid and had no desire to go through that herself! I'll take it! And we've found out that we relate much better to each other as adult to adult than we did as adult to child. It does get better!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 428068, member: 1883"] We had a lot of bad things going on at home when my kids were teenagers, lots of conflict, lots of chaos. My then husband was an abusive, alcoholic womanizer who tried to turn both kids against me and did his best to convince them that all the problems in the family were MY fault! Things were especially bad between me and my daughter. One badly needed divorce and several years later ... With a little maturity and now looking at things through adults eyes, they now see things so [I]much[/I] differently than they did when they were kids. They now realize what was going on and they understand the position I was in. We really don't talk about it much and there have been no apologies - none necessary. The closest we have come is when my daughter was expecting her own baby and she told me that she was hoping for a boy because she remembered what she put me through when she was a kid and had no desire to go through that herself! I'll take it! And we've found out that we relate much better to each other as adult to adult than we did as adult to child. It does get better! [/QUOTE]
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