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Letting Go. Once again-I read something and had an aha moment & wanted to share+
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<blockquote data-quote="Calamity Jane" data-source="post: 518300" data-attributes="member: 13882"><p>Signorina,</p><p>Thank you for that post. It is a drag when family members, like sister in law meddle in others' affairs just to feel relevant. She should know better; she'll get hers eventually. As far as the kite analogy is concerned, I agree on an intellectual level, I just have to get my heart to go along with my head. I always believed that a family is like a functioning body...a living organism, so to speak. When one person in that body is hurting, or emotionally unavailable, etc., the whole body (family) suffers. It's like the amputee who still has phantom pain where the limb used to be. My heart tells me letting go of the string is tantamount to letting go of my kid's hand in the middle of crossing a busy street and just hoping for the best. Of course, that's absolutely not true, but it certainly feels that way. I'm only as happy as my least happy child. It's just a process, one day at a time. Thankfully, the "body" of this board is so supportive.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Calamity Jane, post: 518300, member: 13882"] Signorina, Thank you for that post. It is a drag when family members, like sister in law meddle in others' affairs just to feel relevant. She should know better; she'll get hers eventually. As far as the kite analogy is concerned, I agree on an intellectual level, I just have to get my heart to go along with my head. I always believed that a family is like a functioning body...a living organism, so to speak. When one person in that body is hurting, or emotionally unavailable, etc., the whole body (family) suffers. It's like the amputee who still has phantom pain where the limb used to be. My heart tells me letting go of the string is tantamount to letting go of my kid's hand in the middle of crossing a busy street and just hoping for the best. Of course, that's absolutely not true, but it certainly feels that way. I'm only as happy as my least happy child. It's just a process, one day at a time. Thankfully, the "body" of this board is so supportive. [/QUOTE]
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