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How do you handle clueless questions about your difficult child?
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<blockquote data-quote="hearts and roses" data-source="post: 374418" data-attributes="member: 2211"><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkslateblue">Fortunately you had loving family and friends who were eager to be supportive (I hope!). In my case, explaining to family (mostly exh's) and some friends was like climbing uphill, dragging a million pound anvil. They were judgmental and asked stupid questions such as, "Do you think this has to do with your divorcing exh?" or "Maybe you shouldn't have remarried" and many other things along those lines...somehow, they refused to believe it was chemical/biological and wanted to believe I did something that made difficult child behave the way she did. I eventually stopped telling them every little thing (in the hopes they would be supportive or helpful) and instead chose to share as little as possible. Even recently, one exsil told me that she thought I overreacted and exxagerated difficult child's behavior back then..."Look at her now, she's so beautiful and gets along great with everyone..." They just don't get it. I have TWO people, besides those here, who GET IT. Who truly understand that there were times in difficult child's childhood when I felt like I was parenting a different species altogether! And neighbors, teaches and coaches...forget it. Waste of my time. </span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hearts and roses, post: 374418, member: 2211"] [SIZE=3][COLOR=darkslateblue]Fortunately you had loving family and friends who were eager to be supportive (I hope!). In my case, explaining to family (mostly exh's) and some friends was like climbing uphill, dragging a million pound anvil. They were judgmental and asked stupid questions such as, "Do you think this has to do with your divorcing exh?" or "Maybe you shouldn't have remarried" and many other things along those lines...somehow, they refused to believe it was chemical/biological and wanted to believe I did something that made difficult child behave the way she did. I eventually stopped telling them every little thing (in the hopes they would be supportive or helpful) and instead chose to share as little as possible. Even recently, one exsil told me that she thought I overreacted and exxagerated difficult child's behavior back then..."Look at her now, she's so beautiful and gets along great with everyone..." They just don't get it. I have TWO people, besides those here, who GET IT. Who truly understand that there were times in difficult child's childhood when I felt like I was parenting a different species altogether! And neighbors, teaches and coaches...forget it. Waste of my time. [/COLOR][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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