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06/07/2008 08:22
carmen33
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What to do? Daddiesgirl, like it or not, you have to take care of you, and you need to get to your doctors, period, people out here in South Carolina just drive me crazy, the way that they will cater to the Bosses whims and not do what they know they need to do for themselves, a lady that I worked with 5 years ago, wanted to take sometime off and spend with her dying Mother, and the boss told her No, she could not have the time off, she didn't take it and lost her mom a short time later, she will forever regret not spending that time with her Mom, and will carry a resentment against the boss for the rest of her life.. Bosses don't like me too much because I am not afraid of Authority.. like bosses are considered.. most of the time I am very flexible, and will do 150% above what is required of me, I've been known to go into my work, on my day off, or even on vacation and have the boss tell me he/she needed me to work, I went to work, at where I work now, my day off the boss said he needed me, I went to work in street clothes, at a department store, I use to work at, I went shopping on my vacation, the boss said she needed me, I bought clothes off the rack and went to work, screwed up payroll for a couple of weeks trying to figure out how they were to do my vacation time vs. work hours but oh well.

As tacky as it might sound, if the place burns down today, your work schedule isn't going to matter, your not that important.. you do what you have to do to take care of you, short and simple.

Why you are doing so well now? your probably like I am, calm and cool in crisis and fall apart later, you know that you need to be..simple and straight.

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06/07/2008 13:03
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i know you are right. i will get to the doc soon. like you said, i am doing well. dont know why. figure it's becuz i finally figured out how to recognize and control my triggers. and found that if i set small goals and accomplish them one at a time it does wonders for my self esteem and i stay out of depression. that's the worst for me, the depression is so devastating, once i sink in, it's soooooooo hard to get back out. thank the Lord for my son. He's been my rock. unfortunately though, once i realized that i was using him as an emotional crutch and told myself it wasnt fair to him and started becoming more independent he started becoming rebellious. it was almost as if he resented the fact that i didnt "need" him so much emotionally. although he admits that i am doing what's right, he is having a hard time adjusting. He is at the point now where he feels i "owe" him for all the years he stood by me and no matter what he does, i should "deal" (condone) it. But he was being disrespectful and downright hurtful and i told him i would not, COULD NOT deal with it and i refused too. He just turned 18 and i pretty much told him if he could not respect me then he would have to leave and he packed up his stuff and left. I dealt with it though and didnt get depressed. i told him i was having a hard enough time staying strong for myself. We've pretty much called a tacit truce since my dad's decline, but i know our battle will rear it's ugly head again in the future. hopefully, i'll be strong enough to deal with it. i do owe him so much. thanks for keeping in touch, i really need this forum right now. Hugs
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06/07/2008 15:18
carmen33
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If you've never read the big book of AA, check it out, they might and probably do have a online version of it, there is a chapter that talks about the families of a alcoholic almost resenting the fact that the drunk is getting better, they have had to be the strong ones for so long, they feel like that is being taken away from them, your son is probably going through this right now..but he will get over it.

Your getting better, and that is what is important, and you continuing to get better is more important, at 18 he's also going through that stage that most kids do, the cross roads of going from a child to a adult..even if you hadn't been sick, this time would have come anyway, just let him know that you love him, you deeply appreciate him being there for you, and that you will be there for him when he needs you, but it is also important that you maintain the parent child relationship as well, and that means saying NO to stuff that you would not have put up with had you not been sick.

You take care of you, or you will not be able to be there for anyone.

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