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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 629003" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>I get the crazy, happy family, Cedar. It's so crazy it's like a loonybin...everyone is laughing and they aren't sure why or it's at somebody's expense. </p><p></p><p>Me, I miss Beaver Cleaver's family. I wanted his family, not mine. Or the Brady Bunch. I mean, nobody ever yelled or called names and Alice was always there when everything else failed. Plus...the girls were beautiful, weren't they? And, wow, they didn't have The Sunday Morning Fight like we did. That was the horrible fighting that happened in my family every single Sunday morning, probably because it was the only time Mom and Dad were together as Dad was rarely home. The fight had all three of us kids shivering on the stairs and, as the oldest, I felt a need to shield the other two, but I couldn't and of course we are all working on our stuff. I'm sure it is never 100% resolved.</p><p></p><p>And, yes, in our family we wanted it to be better. My family is actually good with Tom, me, Julie, Sonic and Jumper, but we had so many glitches to overcome. Scott left us...we survived that pretty well because he was so mean when he left us, at least none of the kids were sorry to see him go. We had the adopted sexual predator and due to the saintly help of CPS, we survived that and got even closer. (This would not have happened in my original family. The predator would have somehow been MY fault, don't ask me how). 36 is basically on the sidelines and nobody is interested in contact with him except me. They don't miss him either. I didn't want to raise sibls that didn't care like in my original family, but there you go. And I don't blame them. </p><p></p><p>My family with Tom and Sonic and Jumper was near perfect. So I did have my moment to gloat inside (hearing my mother say how nobody would ever put up with me and how I'd never raise a normal kid).</p><p></p><p>Cedar, lol, I'd have been almost humbled if the worst thing 36 had ever called me was "jerk." Try c*** or b****h. And, although he stopped doing that because it cost him weeks of no contact, he still refers to other woman as c****s and it makes me cringe. I'm not really a raving femnist, but to me that is the height of disrespect toward women. I can't think of an uglier word to call a female. </p><p></p><p>I was going to go to Al-Anon this morning, but it's my day off and it's sucky outside so I took the dogs for a ride and shopped and hit some garage sale. Don't feel like fixing myself today. Have a picnic with Community Theater Group later. Don't really want to go (I wonder if it's my family of origin once again that has made me such a hermit), but I'll go because I'm expected to go and I do like the group and one of the poor woman in the group just lost her husband to cancer. He was pretty young too. I want to make sure I sign the card and also remember to count my blessings, of which I fortunately do have many.</p><p></p><p>We all do, don't we? We just need to know where they are or who they are.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 629003, member: 1550"] I get the crazy, happy family, Cedar. It's so crazy it's like a loonybin...everyone is laughing and they aren't sure why or it's at somebody's expense. Me, I miss Beaver Cleaver's family. I wanted his family, not mine. Or the Brady Bunch. I mean, nobody ever yelled or called names and Alice was always there when everything else failed. Plus...the girls were beautiful, weren't they? And, wow, they didn't have The Sunday Morning Fight like we did. That was the horrible fighting that happened in my family every single Sunday morning, probably because it was the only time Mom and Dad were together as Dad was rarely home. The fight had all three of us kids shivering on the stairs and, as the oldest, I felt a need to shield the other two, but I couldn't and of course we are all working on our stuff. I'm sure it is never 100% resolved. And, yes, in our family we wanted it to be better. My family is actually good with Tom, me, Julie, Sonic and Jumper, but we had so many glitches to overcome. Scott left us...we survived that pretty well because he was so mean when he left us, at least none of the kids were sorry to see him go. We had the adopted sexual predator and due to the saintly help of CPS, we survived that and got even closer. (This would not have happened in my original family. The predator would have somehow been MY fault, don't ask me how). 36 is basically on the sidelines and nobody is interested in contact with him except me. They don't miss him either. I didn't want to raise sibls that didn't care like in my original family, but there you go. And I don't blame them. My family with Tom and Sonic and Jumper was near perfect. So I did have my moment to gloat inside (hearing my mother say how nobody would ever put up with me and how I'd never raise a normal kid). Cedar, lol, I'd have been almost humbled if the worst thing 36 had ever called me was "jerk." Try c*** or b****h. And, although he stopped doing that because it cost him weeks of no contact, he still refers to other woman as c****s and it makes me cringe. I'm not really a raving femnist, but to me that is the height of disrespect toward women. I can't think of an uglier word to call a female. I was going to go to Al-Anon this morning, but it's my day off and it's sucky outside so I took the dogs for a ride and shopped and hit some garage sale. Don't feel like fixing myself today. Have a picnic with Community Theater Group later. Don't really want to go (I wonder if it's my family of origin once again that has made me such a hermit), but I'll go because I'm expected to go and I do like the group and one of the poor woman in the group just lost her husband to cancer. He was pretty young too. I want to make sure I sign the card and also remember to count my blessings, of which I fortunately do have many. We all do, don't we? We just need to know where they are or who they are. [/QUOTE]
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