When Your Kid Has Negative Feelings About You
I had my daughter when I was 17 and we had hard times, including her see me get beat down by her bio dad many times. She also witnessed me have a postpartum depression breakdown in which I nearly killed her baby brother and I lost custody of him for a while. and then less [...]
Sometimes I Can’t Stand My Family – Party Angst
Just musing on this today as I contemplate my invite list for our annual Spring Party. I won’t invite my family…because my nerves just can’t take them right now. There, I said it, any family members reading this you can go and report back to headquarters. I can’t take it, not at my Happy Spring [...]
A story about "Controlling People: How to Recognize, Understand, and Deal With People Who Try to Control You"
This. Book. Is. AWESOME. It’s by Patricia Evans who wrote the also awesome book The Verbally Abusive Relationship. I initially got this book for a close friend of mine who is trying to come to terms with being in a physically abusive relationship. I have been there, and she knows this, but she does not [...]
I Talk Too Much
I was walking with my daughter Iyende yesterday, she walked with me to the store. We had a nice time, just talking and laughing and hanging out. Or so I thought. On the way home I was talking about something, and she seemed to be listening; she was talking back and nodding her head and [...]
