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<blockquote data-quote="Childofmine" data-source="post: 687799" data-attributes="member: 17542"><p>Hi RE, just getting back after a few days away and catching up a bit...so glad to hear about you and what's going on in your life, and especially your retirement. Please write more about that later---tell me how to start thinking about getting ready for that! </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Ah, what a Solomon's choice. I think that kind of choice is one of the hardest. We have a nice house. They have no where. We are going to turn them out because we can't trust them to be in our nice house. It is a very hard thing to do, the hardest, but so many of us do it, and have done it, because when you get down to it, to the base of it, there is no other choice. Our home has to be our sanctuary, and we can't trust that sanctuary to someone who is untrustworthy. It's so sad. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>So you made the hard, hard decision, the right one, I believe, and by doing it...wrenching as it was, you move another step forward on your journey...the only true journey we need to be on, the one where we let go of all people, places and things, and we are so light that we float forward in our lives, filled with many emotions---sadness, peace, that exquisite relief. The relief of knowing we can't fix the world, we can't fix our adult children, we have a full time job working on ourselves. </p><p></p><p>I'm so glad you had such a peaceful and joyous Mother's Day. What a gift after such a hard decision. So glad to hear from you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Childofmine, post: 687799, member: 17542"] Hi RE, just getting back after a few days away and catching up a bit...so glad to hear about you and what's going on in your life, and especially your retirement. Please write more about that later---tell me how to start thinking about getting ready for that! Ah, what a Solomon's choice. I think that kind of choice is one of the hardest. We have a nice house. They have no where. We are going to turn them out because we can't trust them to be in our nice house. It is a very hard thing to do, the hardest, but so many of us do it, and have done it, because when you get down to it, to the base of it, there is no other choice. Our home has to be our sanctuary, and we can't trust that sanctuary to someone who is untrustworthy. It's so sad. So you made the hard, hard decision, the right one, I believe, and by doing it...wrenching as it was, you move another step forward on your journey...the only true journey we need to be on, the one where we let go of all people, places and things, and we are so light that we float forward in our lives, filled with many emotions---sadness, peace, that exquisite relief. The relief of knowing we can't fix the world, we can't fix our adult children, we have a full time job working on ourselves. I'm so glad you had such a peaceful and joyous Mother's Day. What a gift after such a hard decision. So glad to hear from you. [/QUOTE]
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