Re: I need you all........basketcase mother........

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Mine either and I always seemed to be the one she blames/blamed everything on.

njbyrd njbyrd@...> wrote: Jean,

This sounds like my daughter - never seemed happy as a child no

matter what I did.

>

> I cannot ever share joy with this one because their IS NO joy in

her ever.

> There was a fairy tale when she was little about a king who had a

dauther who

> was never happy, never smiled. He sent out notices far and wide

that

> whoever could make his daughter smile, would get her hand in

marriage. In the

> fairy tale, eventually someone did. I ALWAYS felt like that king-

--always trying

> to make her happy and never succeedinf. Always felt I had to

overcompensate

> because there was no father in the picture. She says she hated

having to go

> to the father daughter dances with my male cousin (who was always

quite

> handsome and very funny and she really liked him. But I guess it

wasn't HER

> father.

>

> I told her perhaps she has some anger issues toward him that need

to be

> dealt with. But she says she is not angry at him or at Will. I

guess she is

> just always angry at me---the sap who has always been there for

her.

>

> My son son says he never remembers her being happy as a child and

that I was

> ALWAYS jumping thru hoops to please. This circus dog is tired.

>

> Jean

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