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How often do you feel "joyful" or "happy" ?
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<blockquote data-quote="InsaneCdn" data-source="post: 450934" data-attributes="member: 11791"><p>Marg said...</p><p></p><p></p><p>Perhaps Marg needs to start us a new thread... with a manual on how to find ourselves? I can see where it's probably part of the problem, but... it takes so much effort to try to help the kids and husband find <u>themselves</u> that I guess I kind of get lost in the process.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Janet said...</p><p></p><p>I'd have used "isolated" instead of lonely... same picture. Its always been that way. Just worse, with a difficult child around.</p><p></p><p>I'm reading a book these days that describes part of the challenge... we who have challenges - be they in ourselves, or external - have to balance the need to "protect" and the need to "connect". And we end up spending so much time and effort in the "protect" mode that we don't get to the "connect" mode.</p><p></p><p>That's why this forum has been good for me - on some level, the ability to connect with someone outside my "four walls".</p><p></p><p>Joy? Not sure I'll ever use that word. I'll settle for... contentment, peace, and a quiet positive feeling that defies being "labelled". If I can ever find these... then maybe joy will come too?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsaneCdn, post: 450934, member: 11791"] Marg said... Perhaps Marg needs to start us a new thread... with a manual on how to find ourselves? I can see where it's probably part of the problem, but... it takes so much effort to try to help the kids and husband find [U]themselves[/U] that I guess I kind of get lost in the process. Janet said... I'd have used "isolated" instead of lonely... same picture. Its always been that way. Just worse, with a difficult child around. I'm reading a book these days that describes part of the challenge... we who have challenges - be they in ourselves, or external - have to balance the need to "protect" and the need to "connect". And we end up spending so much time and effort in the "protect" mode that we don't get to the "connect" mode. That's why this forum has been good for me - on some level, the ability to connect with someone outside my "four walls". Joy? Not sure I'll ever use that word. I'll settle for... contentment, peace, and a quiet positive feeling that defies being "labelled". If I can ever find these... then maybe joy will come too? [/QUOTE]
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