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<blockquote data-quote="Echolette" data-source="post: 618127" data-attributes="member: 17269"><p>ON an earlier thread there was a theme about not talking about our difficult child's....I have found that helpful with my friends,even my close friends, who have highly successful kids. I can't help feeling that they have a certain titillated interest in my life disaster, a little twinge of superiority...and it undermines me. So...after I read that, just a few weeks ago, I just stopped talking about him. If new acquainances push, I say "he is on an alternative path." If old friends ask, I say "he is the same". If we are doing "compare the kids" I talk about my 3 other ones. SOmetimes I feel that I have betrayed my mommyhood...I honestly feel these days that I have only 3 kids.</p><p>And yes, it is sad, and yes, it is embarassing. That part is ours to process our way through and let it go.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Echolette, post: 618127, member: 17269"] ON an earlier thread there was a theme about not talking about our difficult child's....I have found that helpful with my friends,even my close friends, who have highly successful kids. I can't help feeling that they have a certain titillated interest in my life disaster, a little twinge of superiority...and it undermines me. So...after I read that, just a few weeks ago, I just stopped talking about him. If new acquainances push, I say "he is on an alternative path." If old friends ask, I say "he is the same". If we are doing "compare the kids" I talk about my 3 other ones. SOmetimes I feel that I have betrayed my mommyhood...I honestly feel these days that I have only 3 kids. And yes, it is sad, and yes, it is embarassing. That part is ours to process our way through and let it go. [/QUOTE]
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