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<blockquote data-quote="change" data-source="post: 288093" data-attributes="member: 4808"><p>MidWest Mom...you are not venting. Not to me. Thank you for sharing. It helps me to feel "less crazy & naive". We DID NOT know what we were doing when we took our 2 on. We were lied to about their issues. Attachment Disorder was not properly explained to us nor the ramifications AT ALL. He was labeled unadoptable at one point yet we were never told and they had refused to separate the 2 children to make her available. It may have damaged her psyche but she is damaged NOW as a result of his domestic violence that he inflicted on her for the last 3 years that he lived with us and that we couldn't contain him properly. We had them since age 3.5 and 5 and he was the older but he began to assault other kids at age 7 before her. We were VERY strict (we felt abusive at times) and we were socially isolated and we paid out-of-pocket for all kinds of help for him but nothing worked. When it came time to go to court they didn't give us too much trouble relinquishing and no charges against us because we had so many professionals backing us up and school officials too. I WON'T see this movie either. I can barely bare the stupid commercials every time they come on. They haunt me. I had already seen "The Good Son" before he got really bad. Even our the Judge in our case called our situation a "Sophie's Choice" situation. Actually, I'm glad they did make this move. Maybe some of the people who have been judging me and my family will see it or at least the trailer and a lightbulb will go off and they will say "OH! - That could be what they were going through...!" One of my own brother's didn't speak to me for a whole year. He rarely comes around the family as it is and is just very self-righteous and judgemental. I hope he sees it. </p><p> </p><p>I don't want to stress my husband out. He sees me flinch when the commercial comes on and starts talking to me and distracting me. On Mother's Day he bought me a very thoughtful, very beautiful stone pendant from James Avery full of meaning (it's our state stone and we both went to the state Univ.) and the year before I wouldn't even celebrate Mother's Day. He and my daughter made me breakfast, etc. before church. On Father's Day weekend, he brought me flowers even though it was his weekend. I know he senses something, he just doesn't ask and maybe he would rather not open the flood gates. He works full-time (a professional job), has a small business, and is also getting a mechanical engineering degree on the side. I hate to stress him out. His plate is FULL.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="change, post: 288093, member: 4808"] MidWest Mom...you are not venting. Not to me. Thank you for sharing. It helps me to feel "less crazy & naive". We DID NOT know what we were doing when we took our 2 on. We were lied to about their issues. Attachment Disorder was not properly explained to us nor the ramifications AT ALL. He was labeled unadoptable at one point yet we were never told and they had refused to separate the 2 children to make her available. It may have damaged her psyche but she is damaged NOW as a result of his domestic violence that he inflicted on her for the last 3 years that he lived with us and that we couldn't contain him properly. We had them since age 3.5 and 5 and he was the older but he began to assault other kids at age 7 before her. We were VERY strict (we felt abusive at times) and we were socially isolated and we paid out-of-pocket for all kinds of help for him but nothing worked. When it came time to go to court they didn't give us too much trouble relinquishing and no charges against us because we had so many professionals backing us up and school officials too. I WON'T see this movie either. I can barely bare the stupid commercials every time they come on. They haunt me. I had already seen "The Good Son" before he got really bad. Even our the Judge in our case called our situation a "Sophie's Choice" situation. Actually, I'm glad they did make this move. Maybe some of the people who have been judging me and my family will see it or at least the trailer and a lightbulb will go off and they will say "OH! - That could be what they were going through...!" One of my own brother's didn't speak to me for a whole year. He rarely comes around the family as it is and is just very self-righteous and judgemental. I hope he sees it. I don't want to stress my husband out. He sees me flinch when the commercial comes on and starts talking to me and distracting me. On Mother's Day he bought me a very thoughtful, very beautiful stone pendant from James Avery full of meaning (it's our state stone and we both went to the state Univ.) and the year before I wouldn't even celebrate Mother's Day. He and my daughter made me breakfast, etc. before church. On Father's Day weekend, he brought me flowers even though it was his weekend. I know he senses something, he just doesn't ask and maybe he would rather not open the flood gates. He works full-time (a professional job), has a small business, and is also getting a mechanical engineering degree on the side. I hate to stress him out. His plate is FULL. [/QUOTE]
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