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<blockquote data-quote="scent of cedar" data-source="post: 611019" data-attributes="member: 1721"><p>Me, too.</p><p></p><p>There was fear there, too. I was so invested in doing everything I knew to create something I didn't know the feel of. I didn't know what "real" family looked like, other than what I'd seen on television. For so long, it looked like we had done it, too. Then...not so much.</p><p></p><p>I think that mindset is the reason I felt so responsible when difficult child daughter went the wrong way. I couldn't see beyond my own part in who and how she was. Lately though, I'm coming to understand that genetics plays as big a part in who we become as nurturance...maybe, more.</p><p></p><p>How else could it be that, while some abused children grow up and pass that on, others develop intense compassion?</p><p></p><p>************** Congratulations on the birth of your baby boy!!! ***********************************</p><p></p><p>That is happy news.</p><p></p><p>:O)</p><p></p><p>You are so fortunate, and I am so happy for you, and for your husband. I loved being a mom at home!</p><p></p><p>And this also answers another question for my husband and me. Our children are only 15 months apart. We only had two, and always wondered whether difficult child would have been okay if we'd had other children.</p><p></p><p>Probably not, then.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="scent of cedar, post: 611019, member: 1721"] Me, too. There was fear there, too. I was so invested in doing everything I knew to create something I didn't know the feel of. I didn't know what "real" family looked like, other than what I'd seen on television. For so long, it looked like we had done it, too. Then...not so much. I think that mindset is the reason I felt so responsible when difficult child daughter went the wrong way. I couldn't see beyond my own part in who and how she was. Lately though, I'm coming to understand that genetics plays as big a part in who we become as nurturance...maybe, more. How else could it be that, while some abused children grow up and pass that on, others develop intense compassion? ************** Congratulations on the birth of your baby boy!!! *********************************** That is happy news. :O) You are so fortunate, and I am so happy for you, and for your husband. I loved being a mom at home! And this also answers another question for my husband and me. Our children are only 15 months apart. We only had two, and always wondered whether difficult child would have been okay if we'd had other children. Probably not, then. [/QUOTE]
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