This makes 3 for today, and I am 2 for 3 on the bad news...
How to deal?...
My mom told my dad tonight that she was dating someone. I knew he would take it hard and he did. While I was off babysitting from 6:30-11, he was here alone, crying. I can't fathom the type of pain he is going through, especially given the circumstances, which I fear are too personal to share on this blog. I never thought it would have ever come to that. And now, the harsh and scary reality is coming to the surface. I fear for our well-being and for our future, together and seperately. Him and I sat down when I came home, and I fought back tears the whole time, as usual. They couldn't be contained tonight. With the recent tragedy in town, the book I was reading (thanks for a great read, Kate...), and this, I couldn't take it. My biggest problem right now is I don't know where to turn. Everywhere I go there are people offering everything to me, but no one who feels what I feel... This has rekindled all the hurt and resentment that I haven't processed correctly to begin with. Now, with added questions of morality and what "should and shouldn't be", I fear I haven't even begun to scratch the surface of how I feel on this subject...
The biggest thing I learned tonight was said in the past by a 5-year old, and I quote "Well, you should get along, b/c that's what families do."
As for my "family"... All I have left is hope. A now distant friend once told me, "Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever deserves to die..."
I'll take it.
How to deal?...
My mom told my dad tonight that she was dating someone. I knew he would take it hard and he did. While I was off babysitting from 6:30-11, he was here alone, crying. I can't fathom the type of pain he is going through, especially given the circumstances, which I fear are too personal to share on this blog. I never thought it would have ever come to that. And now, the harsh and scary reality is coming to the surface. I fear for our well-being and for our future, together and seperately. Him and I sat down when I came home, and I fought back tears the whole time, as usual. They couldn't be contained tonight. With the recent tragedy in town, the book I was reading (thanks for a great read, Kate...), and this, I couldn't take it. My biggest problem right now is I don't know where to turn. Everywhere I go there are people offering everything to me, but no one who feels what I feel... This has rekindled all the hurt and resentment that I haven't processed correctly to begin with. Now, with added questions of morality and what "should and shouldn't be", I fear I haven't even begun to scratch the surface of how I feel on this subject...
The biggest thing I learned tonight was said in the past by a 5-year old, and I quote "Well, you should get along, b/c that's what families do."
As for my "family"... All I have left is hope. A now distant friend once told me, "Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever deserves to die..."
I'll take it.
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