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<blockquote data-quote="Star*" data-source="post: 253409" data-attributes="member: 4964"><p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"><span style="color: darkorchid"><em>True love doesn't mean you keep taking and taking and taking abuse and never heal your soul. That's not love - that is abuse. True love is different for every person. For me it was the ability to figure out that it's okay to be myself, okay to be imperfect, okay to mess up, okay to be laughed at and that I did a dang good job to raise a child WHO without any of my help would be dead, in jail or in a gang - (still dead in my opinion) </em></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"><span style="color: darkorchid"><em>True love for me was acceptance of who I am, and wanting to do better for myself and those around me. To be the best I could be it meant that I had to admit my shortcomings - deal with them and move on. Basically true love was forgiving myself for not being as perfect as I wanted to be and not finding fault with everything everyone else did that fell short of MY expectations - including my son. </em></span></span></p><p></p><p><em><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"><span style="color: #9932cc">Hugs - Sounds like you're writing again! Clearing out the old "warehoused" thoughts - good job kiddo! </span></span></em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Star*, post: 253409, member: 4964"] [FONT=Courier New][COLOR=darkorchid][I]True love doesn't mean you keep taking and taking and taking abuse and never heal your soul. That's not love - that is abuse. True love is different for every person. For me it was the ability to figure out that it's okay to be myself, okay to be imperfect, okay to mess up, okay to be laughed at and that I did a dang good job to raise a child WHO without any of my help would be dead, in jail or in a gang - (still dead in my opinion) [/I][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Courier New][COLOR=darkorchid][I]True love for me was acceptance of who I am, and wanting to do better for myself and those around me. To be the best I could be it meant that I had to admit my shortcomings - deal with them and move on. Basically true love was forgiving myself for not being as perfect as I wanted to be and not finding fault with everything everyone else did that fell short of MY expectations - including my son. [/I][/COLOR][/FONT] [I][FONT=Courier New][COLOR=#9932cc]Hugs - Sounds like you're writing again! Clearing out the old "warehoused" thoughts - good job kiddo! [/COLOR][/FONT][/I] [/QUOTE]
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