Lost - One of my adult daughters has come to me recently and talked to me about how bad things have been lately (my other two live far away and aren't seeing any of it). She mentioned how hard it is for her to watch him being so short and mean to me. I'm not sure what to say to her. It is hard as a parent to talk to your kids about such grown up issues as marital problems. You spend most of your parenting years trying to shield your kids from things like that (we never really fought in front of them). I'm far from trying suicide, but I can relate to the dying inside little by little. The hardest part being that I am limited in the body I live in. Do you find that it helped your mom to know that she does mean something to your dad? I think that would help me out a lot. Coming as close as I did to dying, there was little emotion seen from him (he prides himself on being able to 'control' them). I sometimes wonder if I had died, would he have cried? I mostly feel like, no, he wouldn't.
Thanks for your words...it helps to hear from your perspective.
M - 48, H - 50 M - 30, T - 33.5 D - 27, D - 26 S - 30
