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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 686743" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>These were brilliant posts. </p><p>My parents divorced when I was 8 and my Dad abandoned us after a couple of years. I did not see him until I was much older.</p><p></p><p>I still deal with it and I am over 60. Really, I cannot even look at my grief, still. It is too hard.</p><p></p><p>My son was abandoned by his parents and at 2 weeks went to a crisis nursery because his birth mother threatened to hurt him. He was there until he was 22 months. When he was 19 we learned he had acquired at birth a serious, chronic disease. When this disease worsened is when things really went off the rails. </p><p></p><p>You see, I am reminding myself here that there are reasons for our children's pain and meaning to their suffering.</p><p></p><p>I am writing this to remind myself of this: We do not get over these hurts. They are truly insurmountable. We can only learn to live with them.</p><p></p><p>This is true for every single hurt that is recorded on this page, on this thread and on this site.</p><p></p><p>Even thought our kids may not know the details, there are ways of communicating that do not involve words. That is why the music makes sense to me. One reason.</p><p>While I have not read it by all accounts this is a fantastic resource.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 686743, member: 18958"] These were brilliant posts. My parents divorced when I was 8 and my Dad abandoned us after a couple of years. I did not see him until I was much older. I still deal with it and I am over 60. Really, I cannot even look at my grief, still. It is too hard. My son was abandoned by his parents and at 2 weeks went to a crisis nursery because his birth mother threatened to hurt him. He was there until he was 22 months. When he was 19 we learned he had acquired at birth a serious, chronic disease. When this disease worsened is when things really went off the rails. You see, I am reminding myself here that there are reasons for our children's pain and meaning to their suffering. I am writing this to remind myself of this: We do not get over these hurts. They are truly insurmountable. We can only learn to live with them. This is true for every single hurt that is recorded on this page, on this thread and on this site. Even thought our kids may not know the details, there are ways of communicating that do not involve words. That is why the music makes sense to me. One reason. While I have not read it by all accounts this is a fantastic resource. [/QUOTE]
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