Posted by Sigismund on December 27, 2008, at 1:00:23
In reply to Holidays and Family (LONG) but would LOVE support!, posted by workinprogress on December 26, 2008, at 23:40:52
I am rather taken with your father
>My dad is more like me... Last year I asked him, do you ever feel it's not ok to have emotions in our family? His response: It's like living in a family of veloceraptors, the first sign of weakness and they attack.
That is an extraordinary thing to say (because it is true?) and so I guess he feels if he had to toughen up to handle this world, you should too.
At 82 he might not remember the depression, but he remembers WWII.Forget your brother. From what you say I would write off (at least temporarily) that relationship and see it as a source of unavoidable suffering.
My experience of family life has been that you can not rely on improvement, which if and when it comes, is either fortuitous or because of the death of some of the participants.
I'm interested in this
>I've spent my trip crying, as much for my little girl as for me.
Because life has to be like this?
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