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<blockquote data-quote="everywoman" data-source="post: 646806" data-attributes="member: 1436"><p>"The words you say matter. They will echo down the years and be heard by your grandchildren, and they will be heard again in generations not yet born.</p><p></p><p>That is something we can do.</p><p></p><p>However bad it gets, we can know our hearts and speak the words of healing. Even if those words are "I love you. Stand up." "I love you. You were raised better." "I love you. We are done."'</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Thank you Cedar for these words. They inspired me yesterday in dealing with my two difficult children---my mother and my son. </p><p>They are living together....neither can live with me....and yesterday they got into a fight because my mother decided she did not like something my son did.</p><p></p><p>Son called me, I did not answer and he left a voice mail....I heard her in the background and immediately went back to my childhood and the abuse I suffered by her words and actions.</p><p></p><p>husband said I should not intervene. I played it for my husband. He sent me over. </p><p></p><p>I should not have to play referee between a 69 year old woman and a 26 year old man who are both emotionally about 16....but I did.</p><p></p><p>Today, I am sore, physically, mentally, and emotionally from the the reminder of my past and from the nightmare of my present....</p><p></p><p>Your words...they made me see that I have done right by my children....even by difficult child if he never becomes what he should be....I have tried to never make them feel the way my mother made me feel...the way she tried to make my son feel.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="everywoman, post: 646806, member: 1436"] "The words you say matter. They will echo down the years and be heard by your grandchildren, and they will be heard again in generations not yet born. That is something we can do. However bad it gets, we can know our hearts and speak the words of healing. Even if those words are "I love you. Stand up." "I love you. You were raised better." "I love you. We are done."' Thank you Cedar for these words. They inspired me yesterday in dealing with my two difficult children---my mother and my son. They are living together....neither can live with me....and yesterday they got into a fight because my mother decided she did not like something my son did. Son called me, I did not answer and he left a voice mail....I heard her in the background and immediately went back to my childhood and the abuse I suffered by her words and actions. husband said I should not intervene. I played it for my husband. He sent me over. I should not have to play referee between a 69 year old woman and a 26 year old man who are both emotionally about 16....but I did. Today, I am sore, physically, mentally, and emotionally from the the reminder of my past and from the nightmare of my present.... Your words...they made me see that I have done right by my children....even by difficult child if he never becomes what he should be....I have tried to never make them feel the way my mother made me feel...the way she tried to make my son feel. [/QUOTE]
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