Living, Getting the Paperwork Started (20 months)

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But the example my parents set is what I was wishing for for my kids, and I guess I can't make that happen or even really facilitate it.

You had great role models for grand-parenting in a D situation. Tuck it away for the time when you might need to use it.

It's been a hard lesson for me to learn that people give only what they have to give, even when I might have thought I needed more. I now realize that I have many different people in my life who give in very different ways.

If I want to keep them in my life, I must accept them just as they are, not who I wish they would be.

It's difficult for those of us who have overfunctioned for years to be come to terms with that, but it's much healthier.