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Is it wrong that I don't even like her anymore?
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<blockquote data-quote="juliabohemian" data-source="post: 174001" data-attributes="member: 5566"><p>Adrienne -there's the caveat. I'm severely depressed. I recently had a rather bad episode during which I was suicidal. I don't have the energy or the attention span to coordinate my daughter's entertainment. Maybe that's supposed to be part of my job, but I honestly am not capable right now. My daughter thinks she is supposed to be entertained 24 hours a day. She will complain that she is bored as though it is my fault there is nothing to do. She knows what her options are and I'm sorry that they're limited. But that's life. When I was a kid, I only had my sister to play with and I made do.</p><p> </p><p>We are barely making it financially. I cannot afford sports or lessons or any sort of camp for her. I can't even afford to replace or repair all of the things she's broken and lost. Our house is trashed because of her. It depresses me even more just looking at it. I find myself thinking about how nice things were before I had kids and worked full time. I find myself wishing I had never had kids, even if that means losing out on the younger one who never gives me any trouble. It's not worth it and I'm apparently not any good at it. How am I supposed to take care of kids when I can barely summon the enthusiasm to go grocery shopping?</p><p> </p><p>I have these neighbors -very nice Christian family with 8 kids. The mother homeschools them. They are all such nice kids. Seriously. She actually had nine and one died from a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) when it was an infant. She's the one who should have the kids, not me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="juliabohemian, post: 174001, member: 5566"] Adrienne -there's the caveat. I'm severely depressed. I recently had a rather bad episode during which I was suicidal. I don't have the energy or the attention span to coordinate my daughter's entertainment. Maybe that's supposed to be part of my job, but I honestly am not capable right now. My daughter thinks she is supposed to be entertained 24 hours a day. She will complain that she is bored as though it is my fault there is nothing to do. She knows what her options are and I'm sorry that they're limited. But that's life. When I was a kid, I only had my sister to play with and I made do. We are barely making it financially. I cannot afford sports or lessons or any sort of camp for her. I can't even afford to replace or repair all of the things she's broken and lost. Our house is trashed because of her. It depresses me even more just looking at it. I find myself thinking about how nice things were before I had kids and worked full time. I find myself wishing I had never had kids, even if that means losing out on the younger one who never gives me any trouble. It's not worth it and I'm apparently not any good at it. How am I supposed to take care of kids when I can barely summon the enthusiasm to go grocery shopping? I have these neighbors -very nice Christian family with 8 kids. The mother homeschools them. They are all such nice kids. Seriously. She actually had nine and one died from a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) when it was an infant. She's the one who should have the kids, not me. [/QUOTE]
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