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The Cheese Stands Alone (my vent-apologies in advance)
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<blockquote data-quote="Mattsmom277" data-source="post: 428266" data-attributes="member: 4264"><p>Thanks for understanding Susie. And thank you for such a nice perspective of my S/O. I'm so incredibly proud of him, of who innately is as a human being, by his personal growth over the past 7 years together. I've watched him beat alcoholism, watched him change from a man lacking confidence to a man who can address a room with authority and gain respect in doing so. I've watched him accomplish 2 degrees, hold a good position with a great company (who want him back by the way, despite his new career path). I've watched him change from such insecurity he could behave controlling and with jealousy (which never sat well with him but was his coping mechanism), to a free spirit who is always there for me in incredible ways and wants nothing more for me than for me to be happy and free spirited as well. He is so unassuming. He doesn't toot his own horn. He works so hard and doesn't back down from struggles, he'd do anything for anybody. I'm just full to bursting with pride in him as a man, a mans man so to speak. I guess it hurts so much more to not see his family rally around in his accomplishments, but they'd always be there to pooh pooh his major mistakes when he was drinking and destroying his life. You hit a nerve with me when you said perhaps not enough drama without drug addict sis around for the occasion. It so often feels as if his family smother those in a pit of their own making, yet are incapable of sharing the good times. I do think it is hard for them to see him as this improved version of himself.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mattsmom277, post: 428266, member: 4264"] Thanks for understanding Susie. And thank you for such a nice perspective of my S/O. I'm so incredibly proud of him, of who innately is as a human being, by his personal growth over the past 7 years together. I've watched him beat alcoholism, watched him change from a man lacking confidence to a man who can address a room with authority and gain respect in doing so. I've watched him accomplish 2 degrees, hold a good position with a great company (who want him back by the way, despite his new career path). I've watched him change from such insecurity he could behave controlling and with jealousy (which never sat well with him but was his coping mechanism), to a free spirit who is always there for me in incredible ways and wants nothing more for me than for me to be happy and free spirited as well. He is so unassuming. He doesn't toot his own horn. He works so hard and doesn't back down from struggles, he'd do anything for anybody. I'm just full to bursting with pride in him as a man, a mans man so to speak. I guess it hurts so much more to not see his family rally around in his accomplishments, but they'd always be there to pooh pooh his major mistakes when he was drinking and destroying his life. You hit a nerve with me when you said perhaps not enough drama without drug addict sis around for the occasion. It so often feels as if his family smother those in a pit of their own making, yet are incapable of sharing the good times. I do think it is hard for them to see him as this improved version of himself. [/QUOTE]
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