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<blockquote data-quote="Childofmine" data-source="post: 683590" data-attributes="member: 17542"><p>Hi MT Denise, I have so often, over the past six years, felt completely numb and surreal as I would sit at dinner with good friends and listen to all of their adult children's wonderful accomplishments, jobs, educational status, boyfriends, trips, apartments, on and on and on. I have one son who fits that category and has done all you could hope, and then Difficult Child. When it was "my turn" to talk about my kids, I would start out with easy child and hope nobody noticed that I never mentioned Difficult Child. My stomach would be in knots. I didn't know what to say...me...someone never at a loss for words. I was ashamed. If I was forced to say something, I would say: He's going through a hard time right now. A silence would fall over the table. And then sympathy. I couldn't just make something up, although maybe that would have been easier. </p><p></p><p>This is so hard on a million levels. And of course, people want you to think they have perfect lives so they don't tell the million disappointments they also have with even PCs. </p><p></p><p>We just aren't honest like we could be, and it would be such a relief to be able to just....say...it. </p><p></p><p>Anyway, yes, I know how you feel and so does everybody here. We're here for you and we get it. You're not alone in this.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Childofmine, post: 683590, member: 17542"] Hi MT Denise, I have so often, over the past six years, felt completely numb and surreal as I would sit at dinner with good friends and listen to all of their adult children's wonderful accomplishments, jobs, educational status, boyfriends, trips, apartments, on and on and on. I have one son who fits that category and has done all you could hope, and then Difficult Child. When it was "my turn" to talk about my kids, I would start out with easy child and hope nobody noticed that I never mentioned Difficult Child. My stomach would be in knots. I didn't know what to say...me...someone never at a loss for words. I was ashamed. If I was forced to say something, I would say: He's going through a hard time right now. A silence would fall over the table. And then sympathy. I couldn't just make something up, although maybe that would have been easier. This is so hard on a million levels. And of course, people want you to think they have perfect lives so they don't tell the million disappointments they also have with even PCs. We just aren't honest like we could be, and it would be such a relief to be able to just....say...it. Anyway, yes, I know how you feel and so does everybody here. We're here for you and we get it. You're not alone in this. [/QUOTE]
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