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Can I trust her when she says she wants to change?
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<blockquote data-quote="Nancy" data-source="post: 673731" data-attributes="member: 59"><p>I think many of us have to work hard not to repeat the cycle we learned growing up. Even if we have great parents there is always something that we can find fault with. Their smallest weakness becomes our biggest many times over. I look at my biological daughter and it is like looking in a mirror. The traits I see in her that are not the strongest were also not mine. My faults are magnified through her, even though I thought I did the best I could. I look at my daughter that I adopted and I find so many wonderful traits that I do not have, among those that got her in so much trouble growing up. She is not at all like me, and yet I find her delightful in many ways, much more easy going and adventurous ( which could be a good or bad thing). I am wondering if she may have rejected me all those years way back because she didn't see herself like me.</p><p></p><p>In one of my counseling sessions over the years I was told we get two chances at this parenting thing, so if we did not have the best parenting growing up, we can parent our kids differently.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nancy, post: 673731, member: 59"] I think many of us have to work hard not to repeat the cycle we learned growing up. Even if we have great parents there is always something that we can find fault with. Their smallest weakness becomes our biggest many times over. I look at my biological daughter and it is like looking in a mirror. The traits I see in her that are not the strongest were also not mine. My faults are magnified through her, even though I thought I did the best I could. I look at my daughter that I adopted and I find so many wonderful traits that I do not have, among those that got her in so much trouble growing up. She is not at all like me, and yet I find her delightful in many ways, much more easy going and adventurous ( which could be a good or bad thing). I am wondering if she may have rejected me all those years way back because she didn't see herself like me. In one of my counseling sessions over the years I was told we get two chances at this parenting thing, so if we did not have the best parenting growing up, we can parent our kids differently. [/QUOTE]
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