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Holidays Ahead...Anybody else dreading them?
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<blockquote data-quote="Beta" data-source="post: 753518" data-attributes="member: 22597"><p>How are you all feeling about the upcoming "family" holidays? How do you manage your grief and expectations at this time of year? </p><p></p><p>This will be our third Thanksgiving/Christmas without Josh present. He is blocked from us right now due to his abusiveness. I struggle every day maintaining enough self-respect to keep some boundaries and not allow him to abuse me. It's hard. I just feel so cheated sometimes from what I thought would "be". And yes, I know it doesn't mean that it will always be this way. I try to keep that in mind too. </p><p></p><p>We just found out that our younger son is thinking about moving across the country in March, and we are being supportive of him but are grieving his being so far away. If it comes about, it will feel like we have "lost" both adult kids. My dream of having them close by seems be that just that--a dream. </p><p></p><p>So...the holidays are on my mind and I'm wondering what your thoughts are?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Beta, post: 753518, member: 22597"] How are you all feeling about the upcoming "family" holidays? How do you manage your grief and expectations at this time of year? This will be our third Thanksgiving/Christmas without Josh present. He is blocked from us right now due to his abusiveness. I struggle every day maintaining enough self-respect to keep some boundaries and not allow him to abuse me. It's hard. I just feel so cheated sometimes from what I thought would "be". And yes, I know it doesn't mean that it will always be this way. I try to keep that in mind too. We just found out that our younger son is thinking about moving across the country in March, and we are being supportive of him but are grieving his being so far away. If it comes about, it will feel like we have "lost" both adult kids. My dream of having them close by seems be that just that--a dream. So...the holidays are on my mind and I'm wondering what your thoughts are? [/QUOTE]
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