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<blockquote data-quote="DammitJanet" data-source="post: 625672" data-attributes="member: 1514"><p>You did amazingly well. Congrats.</p><p></p><p>Over the years as I grew up I came to really admire the way my father dealt with me as a young adult. For probably 2 or 3 years my dad didnt have a whole lot to do with me. It didnt seem new to me because that was our basic relationship our whole lives. Also my first husband left a really bad taste in everyone's mouth. It wasnt until I graduated from college that he started to let his guard down with me. I can imagine he spent a lot of time "sitting on his lips" as his only child did what looked like her level best to ruin her life. In the beginning, even after the boys were grown he would only give me a few outfits for them twice a year. Next came offering me items he intended to take to the Goodwill Store. He really let me put my feet to the ground and learn what I needed to learn without being able to lean on him for anything. Now as he got a whole lot more comfortable with me and Tony he did help us out a few times and was glad to do it. He had a funny way with things. We would ask him to loan us a small amount of money for some disaster that we just didnt have the money for...appliances break, cars die...things like that. He would insist we pay him back even in small chunks but then in about a month after we paid him off we would get a check from him in the amount we borrowed. LOL. He just wanted to make sure we would pay him.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DammitJanet, post: 625672, member: 1514"] You did amazingly well. Congrats. Over the years as I grew up I came to really admire the way my father dealt with me as a young adult. For probably 2 or 3 years my dad didnt have a whole lot to do with me. It didnt seem new to me because that was our basic relationship our whole lives. Also my first husband left a really bad taste in everyone's mouth. It wasnt until I graduated from college that he started to let his guard down with me. I can imagine he spent a lot of time "sitting on his lips" as his only child did what looked like her level best to ruin her life. In the beginning, even after the boys were grown he would only give me a few outfits for them twice a year. Next came offering me items he intended to take to the Goodwill Store. He really let me put my feet to the ground and learn what I needed to learn without being able to lean on him for anything. Now as he got a whole lot more comfortable with me and Tony he did help us out a few times and was glad to do it. He had a funny way with things. We would ask him to loan us a small amount of money for some disaster that we just didnt have the money for...appliances break, cars die...things like that. He would insist we pay him back even in small chunks but then in about a month after we paid him off we would get a check from him in the amount we borrowed. LOL. He just wanted to make sure we would pay him. [/QUOTE]
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