FW: disfunctional family Holiday blues ! ! !

November 23, 2007

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johnghoneycutt@...: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 06:09:33 -0500Subject:

disfunctional family Holiday blues ! ! !

Sad but happy it's over,Thanksgiving that is. My mom prepares the meal out of a

sense of duty as it seems.Like there is no joy in doing it at all and don't dare

get in her way. I try to realize her intentions are good but the grouchiness

that goes w/it makes it less than pleasurable to say the least. My sister in

Iowa has stopped coming at Holidays as not to leave depressed. When I think of

Holidays I think of everyone gathering around my great great grandparents

dinning table and enjoying a meal w/pleasant conversation, not the case w/my

family where everyone prepares their plate and heads to different parts of the

house. One Christmass my sister suggested we all sit at the table but mom said

no I'm going to eat w/toot (toot=my daughter). I talked to my sister about it

and said to her don't you remember when we used to gather around the dinning

table at Holidays and she replied yes I miss those days. I explained to my

sister the dynamics of the situationin amanner she could understand easley. I

had to stop being apart of the family meal process years ago due to the

emotional upheaval that I found unbearable. We aren't a family any longer, we

are just relatives gathered at the same time and place for a symbolic

preverication. Can anyone relate to this predicament???If I had my way come

Christmass I would get a motel room for 2 days and just be alone in peace,that's

truelly SAD ! What are the chances of us every being a family again? Sorry to be

such a drag but I had to get it off my chest so to speak.GOD Bless ! ! ! . . .

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...............................P.S. I hope the rest of you a had a TRUELLY

HAPPY Thanksgiving ! ! !

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