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<blockquote data-quote="ckay87" data-source="post: 749522" data-attributes="member: 24067"><p>I have a circle of friends who have high-achieving offspring. That's the best way I can describe it. My parenting experience is the polar opposite of theirs. We can't relate on that topic. So I struggle with this often. When talking about my upcoming move, I get "oh I'll be so sad when my Matthew doesn't live with us anymore." For example.</p><p></p><p>My go-to way of describing my situation is to laugh about it. I just told a story to a co-worker now about how last night I found my garage padlocked shut (as it should be) but son has completely lost the key. And now I can't mow. And the grass is a foot high. And I don't know what to do. Telling the story, I'm like .... SMH, hahaha, oh boy, LOL. But inside I'm a panicked mess.</p><p></p><p>In a nutshell, I mostly CAN'T talk about my sons. There's nothing to say. Nobody can relate. It's a reflection on me (people who haven't been where we are 100% believe that we completely control how our kids turn out, you can't tell me otherwise). And now I'm all weepy because I DID have 2 cute little boys who I read to and took to playgrounds and vacation and snuggled and giggled and did crafts. And I led Boy Scouts and taught Sunday School and volunteered at school.....</p><p></p><p>And now it's like they didn't even exist because I can't talk about them.</p><p></p><p>I came on here this morning to ask this very question, so thank you for letting me vent. I'm having a hard day already.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ckay87, post: 749522, member: 24067"] I have a circle of friends who have high-achieving offspring. That's the best way I can describe it. My parenting experience is the polar opposite of theirs. We can't relate on that topic. So I struggle with this often. When talking about my upcoming move, I get "oh I'll be so sad when my Matthew doesn't live with us anymore." For example. My go-to way of describing my situation is to laugh about it. I just told a story to a co-worker now about how last night I found my garage padlocked shut (as it should be) but son has completely lost the key. And now I can't mow. And the grass is a foot high. And I don't know what to do. Telling the story, I'm like .... SMH, hahaha, oh boy, LOL. But inside I'm a panicked mess. In a nutshell, I mostly CAN'T talk about my sons. There's nothing to say. Nobody can relate. It's a reflection on me (people who haven't been where we are 100% believe that we completely control how our kids turn out, you can't tell me otherwise). And now I'm all weepy because I DID have 2 cute little boys who I read to and took to playgrounds and vacation and snuggled and giggled and did crafts. And I led Boy Scouts and taught Sunday School and volunteered at school..... And now it's like they didn't even exist because I can't talk about them. I came on here this morning to ask this very question, so thank you for letting me vent. I'm having a hard day already. [/QUOTE]
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