CTH,
Originally Posted By: ClingingToHope
Yesterday will forever be the last Christmas we were together as an intact family. At least it was a good one and I didn't overreach or force an R talk. It'll eventually be a good memory.
Hopefully it is a good memory now. And it won't be one eventually; it will be a good memory forever.
As will the following Christmases, regardless of M outcome.

Originally Posted By: ClingingToHope
I do not know how you successful LBSs handled this.
We are not successful. We endure. Just like you. With Strength, honor, putting your children first, and enduring the pain.

Sometimes when we feel we can do nothing, we can - we must -always endure. You can't fix or cure normal, my friend. You're human. And a good man.


Gardener

"My soul, be satisfied with flowers,
With fruit, with weeds even; but gather them
In the one garden you may call your own."
Cyrano deBergerac