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<blockquote data-quote="Albatross" data-source="post: 740167" data-attributes="member: 17720"><p>Copa, it is very interesting that you should say this. This is exactly my line of thought in the past couple of days...actually, since your post about 24-Hour Mother Disaster Headline News and changing the channel, which led to a shift in my thinking.</p><p></p><p>So when something happens to throw off my equilibrium, I trap myself in 24/7 mayhem and misery, then desperately grab for an escape. Yes, it IS an addiction.</p><p></p><p>It would be so nice to separate all of that crap out from my love. It would be so nice to return to being a mother I respect...a mother who hasn't lost her power, even if I don't have any power over him...if that makes any sense.</p><p></p><p>I am sure I will ramble here, but cutting off contact isn't the way I want to go, no matter how much I'm hurting.</p><p></p><p>Some of my proudest parenting memories are not the warm and fuzzy moments--they're the times my kids got the kind of what-for only a mother can give, because they had it coming. So I called my son last night. We had a "LITTLE CHAT," as they say, but it was good. It was good for both of us. Even if nothing changes, it was good, because it was honest and true.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Albatross, post: 740167, member: 17720"] Copa, it is very interesting that you should say this. This is exactly my line of thought in the past couple of days...actually, since your post about 24-Hour Mother Disaster Headline News and changing the channel, which led to a shift in my thinking. So when something happens to throw off my equilibrium, I trap myself in 24/7 mayhem and misery, then desperately grab for an escape. Yes, it IS an addiction. It would be so nice to separate all of that crap out from my love. It would be so nice to return to being a mother I respect...a mother who hasn't lost her power, even if I don't have any power over him...if that makes any sense. I am sure I will ramble here, but cutting off contact isn't the way I want to go, no matter how much I'm hurting. Some of my proudest parenting memories are not the warm and fuzzy moments--they're the times my kids got the kind of what-for only a mother can give, because they had it coming. So I called my son last night. We had a "LITTLE CHAT," as they say, but it was good. It was good for both of us. Even if nothing changes, it was good, because it was honest and true. [/QUOTE]
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