--letter to your mother

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, that sounds like a good idea. Sometimes I find myself thinking

of things I'd like to say to my mother and never will--waste of time

and everyone's energy. Yet going through the process of communicating

what you have to say seems like a nice way to process some of those

things. Good for you.

Trish

>

> Hi all,

> Well I just want to thank you all so much for your comments,

> feedback, and support - really fantastic.

> Found it fascinating that several of you mentioned the term 'thin-

> skinned'. When I saw the term in your posts, I assumed that I must

> have mentioned it in my original letter as my mother calls me that

> quite often. Why else would your posts use the term? So, I went back

> and searched but found that I hadn't. Of course - should have

> realised - others get called 'thin-skinned as well.

> Also interesting with the comments regarding 'stuttering'. I could

> write a whole post about stuttering but I will save that for another

> day.

> Also liked the separate post about the 'message', in other words,

> what is it really that is contained within the communication - what

> is the underlying message? Is it that I am bad or is it that I don't

> exist?

> Over the weekend, I realised that I was looking for Sam's approval.

> He is, more or less, the only one I am in contact with at the moment

> from my FOO and, although I didn't see it straight away, it is now

> clear that he has picked up the baton of ' is bad " . And I was

> trying to show him that I am not. So, my letter to him was

> saying: " Look I'm not bad, this is the reason that I do what I do, I

> am not bad. "

> So, I won't be sending the letter - not yet anyway. I am really

> pleased that I wrote it and I am also pleased that I posted it to

> this group - but I won't be sending it. I will now start working on

> a letter to my mother. And I probably won't send that either - but I

> might just post it here.

> Again thank you all.

> Best wishes

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