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<blockquote data-quote="Steely" data-source="post: 64192" data-attributes="member: 3301"><p>Reading your posts has me crying again..........thanks SO much for caring. </p><p> :flower:</p><p> </p><p>Sometimes it seems so lonely just difficult child and me.......especially when I know what my son needs most is a positive caring male role model. My father, his grandpa, tried to rise to the occasion when difficult child was younger - but my dad's temper and difficult children temper inevitably ignited one another. As a teen difficult child wanted nothing to do with grandpa because of their flare ups - and now my dad has cancer, and has pretty much written difficult child off as well. </p><p></p><p>AllStressedOut - you are so right on the money with the saying that our blood family does not have the "right" to tear our hearts out, they simply have the ability. And Marg thank you for reminding me that there is a lot more to love than DNA - how I wish, just once, that his dad had taken the time to even throw a football though............</p><p></p><p>Intellectually difficult child knows that his dad is faulty in all sets of his wiring - it is just in his little kid heart that he still has this hope and dream. His dad left when he was 4, and emotionally I am not sure my son has progressed past that age with his relationship with his dad. He knows how to harden against him when he is gone for long periods of time, but once he is back in his life his heart melts to marshmellow mush.</p><p></p><p>I guess the good news is that it looks this will be "super-dads" final disappearing act.......and difficult child will be able to move again to his hard place that he has found over the years.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steely, post: 64192, member: 3301"] Reading your posts has me crying again..........thanks SO much for caring. [img]:flower:[/img] Sometimes it seems so lonely just difficult child and me.......especially when I know what my son needs most is a positive caring male role model. My father, his grandpa, tried to rise to the occasion when difficult child was younger - but my dad's temper and difficult children temper inevitably ignited one another. As a teen difficult child wanted nothing to do with grandpa because of their flare ups - and now my dad has cancer, and has pretty much written difficult child off as well. AllStressedOut - you are so right on the money with the saying that our blood family does not have the "right" to tear our hearts out, they simply have the ability. And Marg thank you for reminding me that there is a lot more to love than DNA - how I wish, just once, that his dad had taken the time to even throw a football though............ Intellectually difficult child knows that his dad is faulty in all sets of his wiring - it is just in his little kid heart that he still has this hope and dream. His dad left when he was 4, and emotionally I am not sure my son has progressed past that age with his relationship with his dad. He knows how to harden against him when he is gone for long periods of time, but once he is back in his life his heart melts to marshmellow mush. I guess the good news is that it looks this will be "super-dads" final disappearing act.......and difficult child will be able to move again to his hard place that he has found over the years. [/QUOTE]
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