I come from a family with two working parents, both successful in ther fields...upper-middle class upbringing. I grew up with one older, protective, very intelligent, somewhat geeky brother that I love dearly...and who would grow defensive if anyone questioned whether I was his sister or not (I always loved that). It just showed he never thought of me as adopted, just as his sister.
As for my folks my father was my coach in figure skating coach, gynmastics, and soccer for 15 + years...and every summer we took our annual family vacation for 2-weeks to someplace we'd never been before.
These stories make me grin from ear to ear. Cinema-smiling like a fool.
I don't mind the sun sometime
The images it shows
I can taste you on my lips
And smell you in my clothes
Cinnamon and Sugar
And softly spoken lies
You never know just how you look
Through someone elses eyes
BHS-"Pepper"
I don't mean to hijack your thread, but I have a feeling you'll understand. I just have to let Cinemanyph know that we used to refer to my father as "The Less Nessman of Tool Time"....he is a bald man who always has a bandaid on him somewhere and has toold to fix tools! Yes, I remember who Less Nessman is
GEL, hey you're not highjacking - I love it! I love happy stories, they warm my heart and I can't get enough of them actually! As for the Less Nessmon - ????? I would make some cracks about age but I happen to know this would come back and bite me in my own lil rear end - right? ;-)
I still don't understand what Cemar was indicating about his wife and behavorials of women from dysfunction.
GEL, somehow I always thought that having a Beaver Cleaver childhood would be protection against choosing an abusive partner... how do you supposed that happened to you?
I, too, am interested in Cemar's behavioral profile of women from dysfunctional families. How about it Ce, what's your take?
GEL-I thought turkeys could fly!!
I don't mind the sun sometime
The images it shows
I can taste you on my lips
And smell you in my clothes
Cinnamon and Sugar
And softly spoken lies
You never know just how you look
Through someone elses eyes
BHS-"Pepper"
You woud think that wouldn't you? It would only make sense. Here's my take on this though.
Yes, I grew up with Ozzy & Harriet, but did you ever notice Ozzy & Harriet never fought in front of the kids, heck they barely ever had any disagreements? This means, I never saw my mom stand up for herself either...so I didn't learn how to do that myself.
Don't think I'm blaming my mom or dad for that either, I don't...it's just simply that we tend to follow our role models. I also do believe that to some extent my 1st husband chose me just as much as I chose him. I was young and naieve in many respects...and unfortunately when confronted with the type of sexual/mental abuse that he dolled out to me I didn't know how to fight back....and lets face it, I was terrified and ashamed. I thought I had done something to deserve what I was getting because that's what I was told time and time again by my ex. I was too ashamed to tell my folks because I thought they would be disappointed in me, I felt like a failure in every possible way at that time....I could not have been more wrong about my folks though...I know that now. They threw a party when I finally did get out....alive.
I hope that makes as much sense in writing as it did in my head.
Re: Les Nessman, one of the more famous WKRP episodes where the jocks thought it would be a great idea to drop turkeys from a helicopter.
I don't mind the sun sometime
The images it shows
I can taste you on my lips
And smell you in my clothes
Cinnamon and Sugar
And softly spoken lies
You never know just how you look
Through someone elses eyes
BHS-"Pepper"
