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<blockquote data-quote="scent of cedar" data-source="post: 599618" data-attributes="member: 1721"><p>I'm sorry this is happening, Dash.</p><p></p><p>You are right. You need to cycle through the stages, again and again. I can remember walking through the Baby department in Target shortly after difficult child daughter told us she was pregnant the first time. I felt so angry that difficult child had actually bred with this worthless, horrible person. I wasn't even thinking about the baby. I thought about what a pregnancy meant to difficult child. </p><p></p><p>I felt so cheated. I would become a grandmother, such an important life transition, in this way. It all seemed so cheap, so wrong. </p><p></p><p>I was so angry that MY grandchild had been fathered by that freak. </p><p> </p><p>It felt like that, in the series of mistakes that had been difficult child's adolescence, this was one she could never just walk away from.</p><p></p><p>difficult child was overjoyed to be pregnant, and by this man. (!)</p><p></p><p>I couldn't have been more disgusted that difficult child had anything to do with the man who fathered my grandchild, couldn't have been angrier that she saw him at all ~ let alone that she WANTED his baby.</p><p></p><p>But Dash, here is what happened. </p><p></p><p>I fell right in love with that little girl. If I had only known how much I was going to come to love her, if I could only have known how much joy she would bring us...I would have tried to anticipate her birth. I would have welcomed her with a full heart.</p><p></p><p>So, that is what I would tell you about this time, Dash. Through all the misery and resentment of the next months, remember my story. I wasted so much time being angry. I would not attend that first grandchild's birth, because the father would be there. What a loss, for me! I refused to anticipate the birth, refused to celebrate the pregnancy ~ again, what a loss for me, given that I came to love that little girl so unbelievably much.</p><p></p><p>Barbara</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="scent of cedar, post: 599618, member: 1721"] I'm sorry this is happening, Dash. You are right. You need to cycle through the stages, again and again. I can remember walking through the Baby department in Target shortly after difficult child daughter told us she was pregnant the first time. I felt so angry that difficult child had actually bred with this worthless, horrible person. I wasn't even thinking about the baby. I thought about what a pregnancy meant to difficult child. I felt so cheated. I would become a grandmother, such an important life transition, in this way. It all seemed so cheap, so wrong. I was so angry that MY grandchild had been fathered by that freak. It felt like that, in the series of mistakes that had been difficult child's adolescence, this was one she could never just walk away from. difficult child was overjoyed to be pregnant, and by this man. (!) I couldn't have been more disgusted that difficult child had anything to do with the man who fathered my grandchild, couldn't have been angrier that she saw him at all ~ let alone that she WANTED his baby. But Dash, here is what happened. I fell right in love with that little girl. If I had only known how much I was going to come to love her, if I could only have known how much joy she would bring us...I would have tried to anticipate her birth. I would have welcomed her with a full heart. So, that is what I would tell you about this time, Dash. Through all the misery and resentment of the next months, remember my story. I wasted so much time being angry. I would not attend that first grandchild's birth, because the father would be there. What a loss, for me! I refused to anticipate the birth, refused to celebrate the pregnancy ~ again, what a loss for me, given that I came to love that little girl so unbelievably much. Barbara [/QUOTE]
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