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<blockquote data-quote="recoveringenabler" data-source="post: 594512" data-attributes="member: 13542"><p>Thank you everyone for your kind words.</p><p></p><p>Good clip Barbara and yes I did see All that Jazz, good movie.</p><p></p><p><em>'We are clearly going to need a bigger boat'.</em> Perhaps in this case it means we will need a bigger heart, or a bigger spirit, one which can hold all the remarkable paradoxes of life........... without going crazy................In living through this strange movie I am in with my difficult child, I see that it requires that I expand my opinions and beliefs about parenting and love to include much, much more then I ever dreamed possible.............I have to throw overboard any previously held notions of what it means to be a parent, what it means to love a child...........I have to add letting go, acceptance, detachment, more compassion and empathy then I thought I could muster and then equal that all out with taking care of myself, putting myself first. Every day I hover on the balance point, sometimes I lean a little to the right, sometimes to the left, but the more I can hold the line, stay in the balance point, the better I feel all around. </p><p></p><p>Nomad, I'm glad there was no drama for you yesterday. My granddaughter just turned 17 and her mother did not help her, they rarely speak, she executed it on her own. </p><p></p><p>I went to bed last night not having heard a peep from my difficult child. I had no real feelings about it since it is nothing new. When I went outside to get the morning paper, there were 2 dozen roses, just beautiful, sitting outside the door,with a note from my daughter. She emailed me twice, put up notices on Facebook and left me a text message. Yikes. Seems the more I step back, the more she moves a little forward. I don't know what to make of any of that, but I am just sticking with what a nice surprise it was to receive gestures of care from my difficult child. It is what it is. I really had a very good day yesterday. No shoes dropping...........a very good thing........</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="recoveringenabler, post: 594512, member: 13542"] Thank you everyone for your kind words. Good clip Barbara and yes I did see All that Jazz, good movie. [I]'We are clearly going to need a bigger boat'.[/I] Perhaps in this case it means we will need a bigger heart, or a bigger spirit, one which can hold all the remarkable paradoxes of life........... without going crazy................In living through this strange movie I am in with my difficult child, I see that it requires that I expand my opinions and beliefs about parenting and love to include much, much more then I ever dreamed possible.............I have to throw overboard any previously held notions of what it means to be a parent, what it means to love a child...........I have to add letting go, acceptance, detachment, more compassion and empathy then I thought I could muster and then equal that all out with taking care of myself, putting myself first. Every day I hover on the balance point, sometimes I lean a little to the right, sometimes to the left, but the more I can hold the line, stay in the balance point, the better I feel all around. Nomad, I'm glad there was no drama for you yesterday. My granddaughter just turned 17 and her mother did not help her, they rarely speak, she executed it on her own. I went to bed last night not having heard a peep from my difficult child. I had no real feelings about it since it is nothing new. When I went outside to get the morning paper, there were 2 dozen roses, just beautiful, sitting outside the door,with a note from my daughter. She emailed me twice, put up notices on Facebook and left me a text message. Yikes. Seems the more I step back, the more she moves a little forward. I don't know what to make of any of that, but I am just sticking with what a nice surprise it was to receive gestures of care from my difficult child. It is what it is. I really had a very good day yesterday. No shoes dropping...........a very good thing........ [/QUOTE]
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