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When Your Kid Has Negative Feelings About You

by Trula on August 17, 2009 · 2 Comments

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 [...]

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Sometimes I Can’t Stand My Family – Party Angst

by Trula on March 27, 2007 · No Comments

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 [...]

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A story about "Controlling People: How to Recognize, Understand, and Deal With People Who Try to Control You"

by Trula on January 18, 2006 · 2 Comments

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 [...]

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I Talk Too Much

by Trula on October 2, 2005 · 3 Comments

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 [...]

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