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<blockquote data-quote="Scent of Cedar *" data-source="post: 639607" data-attributes="member: 17461"><p>This is an amazing thread. I am beginning to see the first, faint glimmerings of some things (many things?), I haven't allowed myself even to consider.</p><p></p><p>Ever.</p><p></p><p>In fact, I think I may have pushed myself into a desperate kind of depression about me, about what I did, about how this could have happened, so I wouldn't face these things I don't want to see about my children.</p><p></p><p>But they are almost 40.</p><p></p><p>And the same kinds of unbelievable things ~ and worse ~ have continued to happen through all those years....</p><p></p><p>Truly unbelievable things have happened and happened and happened.</p><p></p><p>Runaway Bunny, definitely take every precaution where your younger son is concerned. As I...if these things I am thinking this morning turn out to be valid things, then persons with sociopathic tendencies really do feel joy when others have been hurt, or when someone can be tricked and betrayed. Even a mother or a father; a brother, especially one who could be perceived as having stolen the love or attention of the mother away, would be seen as fair game by a sociopathic sibling, I would think.</p><p></p><p>It seems disloyal even to think in this way.</p><p></p><p>What kind of mom does this, right?</p><p></p><p>Strange, isn't it, that we can see what is happening in someone else's life, or with someone else's children, but will staunchly refuse to see those same things in our own lives.</p><p></p><p>It is hard to think that this could be true.</p><p></p><p>But my "kids" are 40. And things have just continued to go from bad to impossibly worse for all these years.</p><p></p><p>I remember MWM posting articles relating to sociopathy on P.E. I was too uncomfortable thinking about that whole thing to read the articles.</p><p></p><p>Denial ain't just a river in Egypt, right?</p><p></p><p>Right....</p><p></p><p>Cedar</p><p></p><p>But just imagine. If this is what it is, if this is what has been happening...what would it be to live a life without harboring that sense of fraud, of something wrong that is hidden away? Of, finally, letting go of guilt for the way things turned out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scent of Cedar *, post: 639607, member: 17461"] This is an amazing thread. I am beginning to see the first, faint glimmerings of some things (many things?), I haven't allowed myself even to consider. Ever. In fact, I think I may have pushed myself into a desperate kind of depression about me, about what I did, about how this could have happened, so I wouldn't face these things I don't want to see about my children. But they are almost 40. And the same kinds of unbelievable things ~ and worse ~ have continued to happen through all those years.... Truly unbelievable things have happened and happened and happened. Runaway Bunny, definitely take every precaution where your younger son is concerned. As I...if these things I am thinking this morning turn out to be valid things, then persons with sociopathic tendencies really do feel joy when others have been hurt, or when someone can be tricked and betrayed. Even a mother or a father; a brother, especially one who could be perceived as having stolen the love or attention of the mother away, would be seen as fair game by a sociopathic sibling, I would think. It seems disloyal even to think in this way. What kind of mom does this, right? Strange, isn't it, that we can see what is happening in someone else's life, or with someone else's children, but will staunchly refuse to see those same things in our own lives. It is hard to think that this could be true. But my "kids" are 40. And things have just continued to go from bad to impossibly worse for all these years. I remember MWM posting articles relating to sociopathy on P.E. I was too uncomfortable thinking about that whole thing to read the articles. Denial ain't just a river in Egypt, right? Right.... Cedar But just imagine. If this is what it is, if this is what has been happening...what would it be to live a life without harboring that sense of fraud, of something wrong that is hidden away? Of, finally, letting go of guilt for the way things turned out. [/QUOTE]
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