Hey sorry I've been sort of absent but you seem to be doing much better.
I agree with your friends thoughts about God. I know I posted something somewhere about that same idea a few weeks back but who knows where LOL.
I don't really think age matters with the kids. Because the person they thought they knew becomes someone else entirely. In fact, even when parents have a lifetime of repeat bad behavior, I think whenever it seems like they have changed and then they go back to the bad stuff it is disappointing. It is a cycle I have watched my MIL perpetuate in H's life for the 20 years I have been around and before that as well. The repeat happened again just last month and I think he was as hurt by it now as he has always been. As we get older, we try to say things don't bother us, but when the look in your eyes and tone of your voice are still the same when you talk about it, you know it still bothers. That is where healing and learning to accept people come in and are necessary. But as children, we can always hope.
Have a great weekend, I will pop in and out probably.
"Acceptance doesn't mean resignation. It means understanding that something is what it is and there's got to be a way through it."--Michael J. Fox
