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When a friend doesnt want to hear a vent about difficult child
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<blockquote data-quote="CrazyinVA" data-source="post: 79210" data-attributes="member: 1157"><p>It's hard to be my friend. I learned to accept that awhile ago. When venting about your difficult child(s), you do have to choose your friends carefully. I've had many fall by the wayside, and feel mostly alone a lot of the time. They just don't get it. They don't know what to say, they don't know how to help, the venting wears them out. Merely being my friend wears them out, after awhile. And don't even get me started on trying to form relationships with men ;-) lol</p><p></p><p>I vent in my blog (journal). I vent to my therapist. I vent here, occasionally. I pray a lot. I've learned to count on friendships as an escape from the difficult child issues, instead of an answer to helping me with them. My friendships are for ME.. and I learned that I enjoy them a lot more when I use them to foster my own identity, instead of expecting a sounding board or shoulder to cry on. </p><p></p><p>That's just me, of course. It took years to get to this point.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CrazyinVA, post: 79210, member: 1157"] It's hard to be my friend. I learned to accept that awhile ago. When venting about your difficult child(s), you do have to choose your friends carefully. I've had many fall by the wayside, and feel mostly alone a lot of the time. They just don't get it. They don't know what to say, they don't know how to help, the venting wears them out. Merely being my friend wears them out, after awhile. And don't even get me started on trying to form relationships with men ;-) lol I vent in my blog (journal). I vent to my therapist. I vent here, occasionally. I pray a lot. I've learned to count on friendships as an escape from the difficult child issues, instead of an answer to helping me with them. My friendships are for ME.. and I learned that I enjoy them a lot more when I use them to foster my own identity, instead of expecting a sounding board or shoulder to cry on. That's just me, of course. It took years to get to this point. [/QUOTE]
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