Re: Family insensitiviy

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Good for you!!

You need to take care of YOU or you can't take care of anything else.

Just sounds like she is a control freak and if she doesn't get her way, she

takes it out on you.

My parents keep trying to tell me what to do too, most of it goes in one ear

and out the other.

We live next door to my Dad so...it isn't like they come to visit or me

them, much. My children visit when they wish.

Sounds like my parents

If I moved back, i would have to go with " their " rules even though I am

almost 40.

Got kicked out at 19 and would never go back.

I would rather live with my friends than any of my family.

My Dad doesn't give me the respect I deserve and I doubt I will ever have

that. Neither does my stepmother.

My mom, she accepts some things but she is so old school she is afraid to

touch a computer and heaven forbid if we try talk about relationships and

going all the way.

I am also already getting a lecture from my mother, though good intentions

it is. That my children need to be in church more. Personally, I wouldn't

mind taking them to church but I don't believe it is a manitory(sp) thing

I have even given my stepmother a list of things I CAN'T eat, and it never

fails, we go over there to eat once or twice a year and she makes some of

the things that I can't eat and then I have to sit there and figure out what

I can or can't eat and then if I accidentally do eat something I pay for it

later.

As for my mother, she is more understanding, though I think she shakes her

head at me for not trying harder to make sure I don't eat the wrong things

cause I know she does, though she has her ups and downs days too.(she is in

OA and can eat a pie in one sitting)

> My question for you guys is, how well do your families understand and

> respect your situation? I hope they are more accepting than mine.

>

> Willow

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> My question for you guys is, how well do your families understand

and respect your situation? I hope they are more accepting than

mine.

>

> Willow

>

Good morning Willow,

So sorry to hear of all that you must endure with your family.

I had a simulair situation with my brother-in-law who also couldn't

understand why I can no longer " work for a living " .

I straightened " his act out " after showing him all of my doctors

reports and films, from not only the Neurologist's but the

Orthopedic surgeon & my personal physician too.

He no longer bothers me with his stupid comments. And they are

stupid, I guess some people just can't grasp the idea of someone in

our family being totally disabled and some never will.

Take care and know you aren't alone.

Some day, they'll find a cure for all that ails us, hopefully soon

too.

The rest of my family totally " get's it " , I've 3 sisters and 2

brothers

17 nephews and nieces, and 4 grand nephews and nieces.

/NY