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#10089 - 04/12/06 11:44 AM
Heart is breaking...
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Things here have been quite tough since the last time I posted a few weeks ago. The worst of it is seeing what it is doing to my children. My oldest son had a breakdown the other night, and I had to call his therapist's emergency service. I was afraid he would need to be sedated or even hospitalized.
He had spent the entire day skiing alone with his dad, and I came by later in the evening to drop off his younger brother (who does not like to spend time with his father and had refused to go along with them) in order to comply with our temporary parenting time schedule. They usually spend two weeks with me and 4 or 5 days with their dad. The older boy sometimes spends part of that time at his dad's house without his brother because the younger one does not feel comfortable there and is not as easily manipulated by his father's "charms". Both kids have had a hard time transitioning between the two houses ever since the separation began. These days they are both torn between what they found out about their dad (that he has been carrying on with a married woman for years,that he systematically defrauded the family financially, lied to them for years about any number of things and finally had refused to go to counseling to try to salvage our marriage and save the family) and the fact that they still crave their father's love. It is not an easy thing for them to reconcile, especially as teenagers who need a male role model. Their father never gave them the time of day while they were growing up, and now that he is finally giving them some attention the boys are torn between the gaping deficit in their heart and their disgust for their dad's behavior. Dad has been playing the older boy like a violin and putting all kinds of pressure on him, because the parenting arrangements are going to be set very soon, and he knows that the psychologists are going to testify based on what my children's wishes are. That translates directly into $$$$ for him, money that he does not want to pay in child support and won't have to if he can convince the boys to rethink things and stay with him at least 50% of the time. My youngest son seems to be having an easier time of it because he has a very troublesome history with his father and tells me that he has no illusions about who his father is and that he has no intention of succumbing to bribery and manipulation. I hope that for his sake he can remain strong and take out of the relationship with his dad whatever he needs in order to be whole and feel good about himself. But he is feeling guilty about his big brother's breakdown, mainly because his brother called him up when he returned from skiing and pestered him about coming over to join him at his dad's house and he refused; he thinks that maybe if they had been together his brother might not have fallen apart. Anyway, as I was saying, I brought the younger boy over to join his brother later in the evening and my older son came out towards the car when he saw me pull up with his brother - I thought it was to say hi to me - but instead to my horror he started lashing out at me, SO angry, screaming about things that for the most part made no sense at all. I tried to calm him down and suggested he get into my parked car so we could talk privately. He got in and started yelling and crying that we have messed up his life and now he was going to take back control and do whatever he wants...that he was going to start dictating terms to us and that if we didn't let him do whatever he wants without being accountable he would just leave. I tried to diffuse things and then meekly told him that I had recently adopted US policy and would not negotiate with terrorists and I thought I saw him crack a smile for a nanosecond, but then he got distraught again and said that he cannot trust either one of us, screaming that his dad is a liar and he cannot believe a single word that comes out of his mouth, and then he turned on me and told me that I was trying to make him go crazy and make him think that his memory is failing.(He has been forgetful lately...I'm sure it is due to the stress he is under) He cried violently and when I tried to reach out to comfort him he screamed for me to get away from him and leave him alone. I asked if he would like a minute by himself, and he cradled his head down into his hands and nodded yes. I took the car keys and immediately ran up to his dad's front door and rang the doorbell...I asked him what the heck had gone on between the two of them to make our son so upset, and my soon-2-b-x said he didn't know but for some reason he immediately started apologizing to me and saying it was all his fault and that he is so sorry and he'll do better in the future. He kept saying it over and over again. I asked if they had had a fight but he denied it, saying instead that they had had an "intense" discussion. My son has refused to answer my questions and I still don't know what happened, two days later.
Anyway, we went back outside and my ex approached the car. My son locked the door from the inside and dialed up a friend on his cellphone. He asked to be picked up so that he "would not have to look at either one of his parents". This friend is a good kid and luckily, the son of one of my close girlfriends, and the dad is a good man and a doctor. I called the parents up right away and they both reassured me that they would not let the boys out of their sight and would take care of my son for as long as he wanted to stay with them. I called their house again a short time later to talk to my boy and make sure he was alright, but his dad had already beaten me to it and had made arrangements to take him back to his house. When I did speak to my son he told me that it seemed easier to just go with his dad now and that he would see me tomorrow.
I was able to arrange for a session with his psychologist for the very next day, and his dad and I joined in for the last 20 minutes or so. My son seemed considerably calmer by then. His father, however was clearly uncomfortable, sat with his arms crossed stiffly on his chest and his lips tersely pursed, and he did not open his mouth to comment or contribute even once during the session. My son returned home with his father. But later that evening he came by unexpectedly to sit with me and chat, and then this morning I was startled awake by a kiss on the cheek: he came by on his bike, let himself in to the house and woke me up to kiss me on his way to school. Oh, God. Please give me strength.
Tomorrow morning is yet another status conference with the judge. I know that this can't go on forever, but I don't know how to do this anymore. A part of me feels like cutting out my heart to eliminate the pain of seeing what my children are going through. I devoted 17 years of my life to my boys, I kept them happy and secure in spite of a cold, unfeeling and uninvolved father, only to see them go through this now...It just breaks my heart...
What will happen to my kids?
Foundhervoice-atlast
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#10090 - 04/12/06 05:54 PM
Re: Heart is breaking...
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Foundhervoice, My heart is very sad for what you and your boys are going through now. It sounds to me like your x crossed the line with your older son and he wasn't going to accept whatever his dad was saying. His eyes were probably opened to the "real dad" and that must have broken his heart. At the same time he needs his dad and is finally getting some attention from him. No consolation to you, I'm sure.
These sociopaths want it all don't they? They want to be crooked, cheat their own families emotionally and financially and expect the kids to respect them. Well, they may seem to respect them, but eventually it will explode in their faces.
I know this is hard to believe, but in 1 year, you and your boys will be more settled and whatever the outcome, you will find a way to make it work. Your boys will heal from this because they have a mother who really loves them in a healthy way.
I'm praying for your status conference and for a good resolution.
Daisygirl [ April 12, 2006, 10:57 AM: Message edited by: Daisygirl ]
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#10092 - 04/15/06 09:37 AM
Re: Heart is breaking...
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Thank you both for your kind and reassuring words of confidence in me. I appreciate them more than you can ever know.
This has been a difficult week. My oldest son somehow coped well enough to go through the motions of attending school all week but he is pale, withdrawn, anxious and uncommunicative. He seems very fragile to me and I feel like I am walking on eggshells around him, afraid to say something that will trigger another outburst and send him spiraling out of control. My ex's extended family is in from all four corners of the earth for a holiday reunion this week, and according to both of my kids everybody acted as if I had been erased from the family records or never even existed. How weird was that for them, that nobody even asked about their mother? Especially since I was the glue that held my ex and his family together, always calling everyone weekly in order to stay in touch, never forgetting a birthday or special occassion since he wouldn't make the effort...Both my kids told me that their grandfather (on their father's side of course) has been consistently ignoring my older boy and rudely turned away from him mid-sentence several times when he tried to engage him in conversation.This was, as you can imagine, very hurtful to him, and although it was nothing I haven't experienced first-hand before, I was very surprised that he would take out his displaced anger(?) on his grandson. He even made an announcement at dinner, saying something to the effect that the two remaining spouses of his children (the other 3 are all divorced now too) were going to be treated from now on like "real sons and daughters" since they had proven their loyalty to him (whatever that means!)Boy! were my kids were incensed! I told them that I was sure it wasn't anything personal...that grandpa is just getting older and a little crotchety, but I don't think either one of them believed me. I can't help but wonder what my ex told his parents that has made them both so angry. I'm sure they don't know that it was their son who filed for divorce, refused to go to counseling, and had been unfaithful to me. But then again, blood is thicker than water, so who knows?
The status conference was a bust: my ex's attorney lied through his teeth to the judge and did everything in his power to further incite his client against me and delay a resolution once more, and it worked all too well. By adding fuel to the already raging fire he got my ex so incensed that he now wants to forget about working out a solution and instead have a formal trial. The only person who will profit here is his attorney, who by now must be able to send both of his kids and his wife to Europe for the next 3 summers in a row. This will not turn out well for either one of us because the judge has a horrible reputation of doing things for shock effect and is sure to come up with something that neither one of us will like.
I took the initiative and contacted my ex directly in an effort to make him see how manipulative his attorney was being. When he calmed down enough to listen and we were finally able to talk, I learned that his attorney never gave him the last three compromise-offers we issued, and has been feeding him all kinds of lies about what my lawyer has been requesting. Similarly, it turns out that his lawyer never gave us the details of what my ex was offering us. This is outrageously unethical behavior and I suspect it could be grounds for a malpractice suit. In any case, I have agreed to have my attorney write up our most recent proposal and told him that I will give it to him directly instead of relying on his lawyer to deliver the letter. But who knows what is really going on here? How can you ever trust a word a sociopath says? How do I know I am not being played now, too?
Have any of you been through anything like this? If so, how did you keep your sanity, and after all was said and done, were you able to trust any man ever again?
Foundhervoice-atlast
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#10093 - 04/15/06 08:37 PM
Re: Heart is breaking...
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Foundhervoice, my x and I had a dissalutionment(sp?) with a good and decent attorney so I didn't have those problems.
I did experience my x trying to put the blame on me with his family, but it didn't work because his brother worked at the same airline and knew that he was having an affair with a coo-worker. He tried to do the same with our son. If you look closely at the family dynamice, you will find some dysfunction that would explain why they are all denying reality. Deep down they KNOW - and I bet they are embarrassed, humiliated and hurt by your x's actions.
I remember when I divorced my x, my own mother would say thing's like, "oh, poor Larry" and didn't want me to divorce him. She would've rather I be with a cheating husband than get a divorce. That's how some older people think, especially men. Maybe his father cheated on his mother at some point and is sympathetic.
As for keeping your sanity, just take it one day at a time and know that you will come out on the other side stronger, wiser and will be happy again. I do find it difficult to trust men and seem to attract the sociopaths. You just have to take the time to know a person before you get yourself all worked up over them. That's the healthy way to develop new relationships, but the bad ones will try to make you think there's something wrong with you if you don't hop in the sack right away. They want to do the wild thing BEFORE you find out how bad they are. Run from those.
Daisygirl [ April 15, 2006, 01:42 PM: Message edited by: Daisygirl ]
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#10095 - 12/07/06 08:08 AM
Re: Heart is breaking...
[Re: Casey]
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Dearest Found your voice (can I call you something shorter, like FYV??). I am so sad to hear about your heartache. There seems so much for kids to cope with these days, they dont need to be caught up in relationship games. I have not been where you are, but my kids still have issues. So I just wanted to say be careful not to be hard on yourself, kids might have had problems anyway, in the most normal of families kids can get caught up with problems so be kind to yourself. thanks for sharing and good luck
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#10098 - 12/08/06 12:26 AM
Re: Heart is breaking...
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My parents divorced when I was seven. My Mum did not ever confide anything in me. this was as bad as confiding too much. Kids need to know something, but not everything. I am interested in the view that kids be able to choose where to live. I wonder if that piles too much guilt on to the kids?? I know that I would have felt awful for the other parent if I had to choose to live with one. As it was, I did not have to make that choice and that sat well with my seven year old mind. My brother left to live with my Dad for his teenage years, when my Mum was findng his behaviour uncontrolable. It did my brother good. My brother came back to live with my mum from about 20 until he was killed at 22. So it was good really for all concerned - I suppose I am trying to say that it will work out in the end, as Kate says, you will all eventually move on and it will be OK.
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#10100 - 12/08/06 05:20 PM
Re: Heart is breaking...
[Re: DebShines]
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Dear Found-her voice- : I pray for your family situation. Please take care of yourself, that you may remain strong and healthy throughout your ordeal. Blessings
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#10101 - 12/09/06 05:13 PM
Re: Heart is breaking...
[Re: Songbird]
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Hannelore,
I agree. I get lost in the long posts as well. Thanks for suggesting it!
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#10102 - 12/12/06 07:07 AM
Life after divorce - I'm back and better than ever
[Re: Jane_Carroll]
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Well, it is 6 months since "D-day",and I have been through quite the adventure. I am happy to say that life is now good again, in a way that it has not been for close to 2 decades. Not without its problems, mind you, as challenges still appear on a daily basis and probably will for some time to come,but for the most part I am able to rise up and greet them head-on. It's funny how sometimes the thing you dread the most can turn out to be an absolute blessing in disguise.
I want to thank all of my forum friends for helping me live through what was surely one of the darkest periods of my life. I don't know how I would have made it without your tireless ears, and infinite words of encouragement. I know that I have been blessed, and I am very grateful to you all...
Foundhervoice_atlast
"Happiness is something you decide on ahead of time. It's the way you decide to arrange your mind..."
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#10104 - 12/12/06 02:29 PM
Re: Life after divorce - I'm back and better than ever
[Re: Edelweiss]
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You go, girl! So happy to read you're doing much better! Troubles turn into blessings when we let God in and take his hand to be led. Have a joyous Christmas! You deserve it! And... keep the great attitude!
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#10105 - 12/13/06 07:01 AM
Re: Life after divorce - I'm back and better than
[Re: Songbird]
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Loc: Colorado
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Thank you for your warm holiday wishes!
I took a long hiatus from this wonderful forum when I realized that I suddenly needed to earn a living in order to maintain custody of my children, and right away! I put both of my books and my short story collections on hold, and concentrated on the quickest way to develop an immediate income after being a stay-at-home-mom for 17 years. The divorce settlement I received was meager (my kids have more money put away for their college education than I got for the 20+ years I was married to their dad...) and I lost many a night's sleep over how I was going to put food on the table.
I have worked non-stop for the last 6 months, sometimes not getting more than a couple of hours sleep a night, and eventually settled on getting involved with a network marketing group that has integrity and an extremely useful health product that has strong endorsements from the medical community. I also devised a secondary plan which is now also under way to develop a market for another health product that I have started importing from overseas..as you all know - health concerns are near and dear to my heart and I developed a background by necessity over the years in nutrition and alternative medicine, so it seemed like a logical progression to me.
With the money that these products will bring in, I plan to open up a nonprofit organization to come to the aid of women/mothers around the world who find themselves in predicaments similar to the one I was in, and don't know where to turn for help. I will keep you all posted on my progress.
It was not until yesterday that I opened my writing folder for the first time since the divorce and revisited some of the work that I had put on hold. Afterwards, I checked in with the Boomer forum and realized how much I had missed visiting with you all. By the way, if any of you are still interested in being interviewed for my book on divorce, please send me a private posting on this forum and I will respond to you directly. Please remember that I am not looking for horror stories in spite of what I've been through: I am looking mainly for stories about courageous women who have beaten the odds and gotten their lives back in spite of their ordeals. Any useful advice that you may have for women who may be going through a similar break-up of their families, or suspect that such a break-up is imminent would be greatly appreciated. I want this to be an uplifting book...there is already too much negativity in the world, and I prefer to accentuate the positive and view the proverbial glass as half-full.
In the meantime, I send you my very warmest, heartfelt wishes for a Merry Christmas, a Happy Chanukah, and an awesome Kwaanza! Peace be with you.
Namaste, Foundhervoice_atlast
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#10107 - 12/13/06 10:42 PM
Re: Life after divorce - I'm back and better than
[Re: chatty lady]
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Queen of Shoes
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You go girl! What an amazing woman you are!
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#10110 - 12/18/06 09:40 PM
Re: Divorce? Yuk...
[Re: jabber]
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bonnierose, LOL! But you've got a point!
Foundhervoice, Sounds like you're really on a good track. Many blessings to you!
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#10111 - 12/18/06 09:46 PM
Re: Divorce? Yuk...
[Re: Jane_Carroll]
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Your damned if you're married and your damned if you're not... So what's the moral of this story? Damned if I know.
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#10113 - 12/22/06 06:02 PM
No moral...Re: Divorce? Yuk...
[Re: jabber]
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Hannelore, Those are words of wisdom if I ever heard them.
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#10116 - 12/26/06 03:27 PM
No moral...Re: Divorce? Yuk...
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Well maybe someone has said this before... but I've never heard it. I thought the dxxx thing up all by my wee self. Sorry to say, it's sometimes the story of my life.
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#10119 - 01/06/07 12:15 AM
Re: Life after divorce - I'm back and better than
[Re: chatty lady]
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Thank God for second chances with REAL MEN Peace & Blessings, Beverly Mahone Author, Whatever! A Baby Boomer's Journey Into Middle Age http://www.talk2bev.com “We are STRONG..We are INVINCIBLE..We are Baby Boomers!”
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#10120 - 01/08/07 02:54 PM
Re: Life after divorce - I'm back and better than
[Re: bamgibbs]
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You know what ladies, I would have NEVER in a 1,000 years have expected to be a "liberated" woman (divorced, lol)...
but I have to tell you - I have never felt better, never loved my life more, and have never had more hope for my future!
I'm sure women who have come out of abusive situations in particular especially understand. My ex was very negative and miserable with his life, and you know how poppie runs downhill.
I think the only thing that is hard - is that I am a very(ahem) passionate woman who loves deeply....I grieve not having that someone special in my life. I know it will come - I just really miss that most.
danita
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#10122 - 01/09/07 01:30 AM
Re: Life after divorce - I'm back and better than
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Thanks Dots!
Along that same line - One of the nicest thing said to me was from a long time family friend. He's known my family for years...(and he knows us well (kinda like family)...
he said to me, "danita, your husband is a jerk. The guy you fall in love with will be the luckiest guy on the planet".
That coming from a MAN who knows me well - just blessed my socks off.
I think sometimes as a newly (rejected) single woman, it is easy to think that I'll be lucky to find someone...but I now practice those words my friend said to me....
No, Danita, HE will be lucky!
So much of what happens in life happens between our ears.
:0)
danita
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#10124 - 01/16/07 04:18 PM
Re: Life after divorce - I'm back and better than
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Danita, I've been single at about every age and when I divorced in my forties, I thought having a man in my life was a thing of the past. But I was amazed at how popular I became even after I turned 50.
I was having a blast. A few guys proposed, but I had no intention of remarrying until Dan came along and swept me off my feet.
There's a lot of life after divorce. And it can be fun. You are a beautiful woman with a whole new life ahead.
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#10126 - 01/22/07 09:40 AM
Re: Life after divorce - I'm back and better than
[Re: chatty lady]
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Oh, yes Chatty. Looking younger than actual age has its disadvantages. It does not just attract younger or smarmy men, it is also fodder for snide remarks like: "You don't want your looks to go to waste being on your own".
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#10127 - 01/23/07 02:49 AM
Re: Life after divorce - I'm back and better than
[Re: smilinize]
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And please tell me, smilinize...where did you happen to meet all these men?
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#10128 - 01/23/07 06:46 AM
Re: Life after divorce - I'm back and better than
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I wish I could give you one simple answer. These are the few I can remember here in the middle of the night.
CHURCH: I was dating two guys I met at my church when I met my husband. I also dated a preacher who attended one of my plays. PARTIES: I re-met a guy at a party that I had known for 25 years. He proposed, I accepted. We were within a week of a big wedding when I got cold feet. I had a now famous UN-wedding party for out of town friends. :-) He hated me for a while, but eventually forgave me. (I think he was as upset about missing the UN wedding party as about losing me) MUSIC: An old acquaintance who is a well known musician recorded some of my songs and we dated for a while. Neat guy and I got to meet some neat people. THEATER: I met a guy doing research for a play. He was researching the same character and we began exchanging info. then dated. He proposed, but had a drinking problem. HOME DEPOT: (My persoanl favorite) I was always there with set builders and when I was lonesome, I would go there to kill time. I met a lot of guys who wanted to give advice. A few wanted my phone number. Never dated them, but they were nice. OLD FRIENDS: Two old friends got divorces and asked for dates, but instead we just hung out together. We're still friends. REUNIONS: I re-met a guy I had dated in high school at a class reunion. He proposed. While I was deciding. He was killed in a plane crash. FRIEND FIX UPS: Friends fixed me up with a few guys, almost always a disaster. One stalked me forever. VACATION: I met several guys on vacations and dated them elsewhere, but they lived far away. One traveled here, but he wanted me to visit him and I didn't want to go there.
I met my husband online. He gave me advice about how to get away from the 2 guys I was dating from church. We emailed a couple of times, knew each other for 3 weeks (I was gone 1 of those weeks), on impulse he proposed, and on impulse I accepted. We were married a couple of days later. I've never regretted it and he says the same.
I was single almost ten years this time and I dated a lot. I was not serious about many guys, but almost all were really nice. My single male friends complain about the lack of attractive women. I think the shortage of men is a scam.
I have always had as many male friends as female friends. I like men and I think they sense that. I enjoyed being single. It was not always great, but nothing is. Overall, it was an adventure. If you are recently divorced, you have a lot of good times in front of you. Use precautions, but men are not all bad guys. Nothing is perfect, but with the right attitude, being single, even at midlife, is nothing to dread. A man once told me the secret to attracting men is a smile. My husband says I have a great smile.
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#10130 - 02/24/07 10:46 AM
Re: Life after divorce - I'm back and better than
[Re: chatty lady]
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auch chatty hi good to see you back, really really nice to see your name on the board again
hope you stay well celtic
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#10131 - 02/27/07 01:49 AM
Re: Heart is breaking...
[Re: foundhervoice-atlast]
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your words were soo true to me that it becames scarier as I read on. I feel your pain and your confusion and so much else that you are feeling right now. Could I e mail you?
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#10132 - 02/27/07 03:10 AM
Re: Heart is breaking...
[Re: copper317]
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Registered: 07/06/06
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Loc: Alabama
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Copper, I'm glad to see you are back...I was concerned about you...you can also do a private message to anyone on the boards by clicking on their name and then clicking on private message...that way you don't have to have their e-mail address...
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#10133 - 03/16/07 04:19 PM
Re: Heart is breaking...
[Re: Jane_Carroll]
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Registered: 09/26/04
Posts: 3910
Loc: Alabama
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Anyone heard from Copper?
chick
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#10134 - 03/16/07 06:00 PM
Re: Heart is breaking...
[Re: chickadee]
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Registered: 11/24/06
Posts: 2930
Loc: Belfast/Northern Ireland
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no i havent seen her ....
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#10135 - 06/06/07 11:57 AM
Re: Heart is breaking...
[Re: DebShines]
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Registered: 11/03/02
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Loc: baltimore
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Dear found your voice,I am so sorry for your trials. I can't imagine the stress. I am trying to avoid the stress of a divorce so I keep putting it off. Having him out of the house is relief enough right now. I am a teacher-middle school. I can't tell you how many times one of my kids would start acting up, grades fall, get quiet, get louder, many behaviors that were reaction to parents splitting up or a prolonged period of unrest in the home. PLEASE tell your children's teachers what is going on at home so teachers know how to react to their behavior. At our weekly middle school teacher meeting-sectionals-we do discuss if we see a child in trouble. Knowing what is going on at home would definitely help us set up a plan of helping the child. I know people want to keep things private but in 23 years of teaching I have never experienced any teacher discussing the parents. It's about the child-how we can help.
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#10137 - 06/07/07 12:38 PM
Re: Heart is breaking...
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Registered: 01/18/07
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Found Her Voice,
I'm so sorry that you are going through all of this.
I've gone through a divorce, too, but it was all over when my husband brought his girlfriend to meet me at the hospital the day after our son's birth! No contest.
I've read all of the replies you've gotten and - as always - have read compassionate responses filled with wisdom.
My heart goes out to you and your children.
I agree with others who said that it is clear that you are doing the best you can for your children. I do hope that you are taking care of yourself, as well.
Will be checking this thread to see how you're doing.
Sending healing thoughts your way, Emily
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