Therpist meeting went really well. Therpist agreed to meet with my daughter this weekend in a special session. She stated the sitch was showing some signs of Parental Alientation Syndrome. I emailed my WAS a consent form to have my D15 interviewed and she agreed to it. I felt I clicked really good when I left therapy.
Excellent, this is the way to handle this. D has a problem, rather than blame W you get D into therapy. Well done!
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I got home after and just felt worse and worse. I finally felt isolated and in the abyss. It was like an elephant was sitting on me. After a while, I got up and went on a run. Came home and started feeling worse...went for a haircut and made a good lasagna at home. I just felt all of these crazy emotions - isolation, anger towards my WAS for all of this, thinking I'd never meet anyone again, sadness, just crushing sadness. I ended up cleaning all of the garbage out of my D15's room and laundering her bedding. Her room looked a world better when I was done. That "friend girl" (not girlfriend, LH19 ) called and inited me over, I respectfully declined. For once, i didn't reach out for an emotional life raft in a female! I just needed to spend time in the abyss.
First of all, it's normal to have those feelings. They will come and go. Just remember it's not a reflection on you as a person, it is a reflection of the situation you're going through. Second, good job finding ways to occupy yourself. GAL is the answer, and running and cleaning house are maybe not great GAL activities since they are isolated, but they are still pretty good and WAY better than wallowing in self-despair. So again- good job!
In reading through your last thread you were getting clubbed pretty hard with some 2x4's. I think you know why, and acknowledge you needed it. But I do want you to know that you ARE doing a lot of things right too. When you make a mistake it's important not to dwell on it but to correct it, pick yourself up and keep moving forward.
