OR Why We Can Be Thankful For An Estrangement This coming Thursday is Thanksgiving Day. This will be the first Thanksgiving since 1995 that I can say that I am thankful for the estrangements in my life as well as for so many other things of a more traditional nature like health, friends, a loving…
For Parents
Addendum to the Princess and the Pea.
Three things I want to add… Who qualifies as a Prince or Princess? Not only sons and daughters are candidates for the title of Prince and Princess. Mothers and fathers, aunts and uncles, cousins, friends … anyone can act like a Prince or a Princess. There are different degrees of the affliction:
The Princess (or Prince) and the Pea
OR Don’t Let the Prince(ss)’s Get You Down! Do you remember the children’s story about the Princess and the Pea? The Princess was the girl who was made so uncomfortable by the presence of a Pea under her mattress that she needed many many mattresses laid one on top of the other before she was…
One more good link for information on Mental Health Disorders
This is a good page for descriptions of mental health disorders including Personality Disorders. Psych Central (Scroll down in this linked page for an explanation of what Personality Disorders are and a list of links to information about the various personality disorders.) While many normal people may relate to some of the characteristics described in…
Memory: Undoubtedly neither of us are right?
About 17 years ago my husband and I visited with an elderly couple who lived an hour’s drive north of here. They were a genteel and charming couple who had been married for a long time. The wife served us tea. The husband told us stories. Then he told us a story from which his…
A List of Links on Mental Illnesses that can be involved in an estrangement.
A mental health professional is generally the best person to diagnose a mental illness but sometimes the person who needs help the most refuses to see a professional. Then relatives do the best that they can to try to sort out what is happening. It might be helpful for relatives to consult with a mental…
An essay on the ability to appreciate and the ability to grow.
In 1988 I attended a one week workshop for Adult Children of Alcoholics. During that workshop I learned something about myself. I learned much more than this one thing but there was this one something that I am remembering today. I learned that I had some preconceived notions about older women, meaning women who were…
Link to a Sermon on How to Reconcile a Family Estrangement
This being a Sunday and my not knowing what else to say this Sunday morning, I offer a link to a sermon online given on July 28, 2002 by the Rev. Kenneth G. Page. I include this link not because of my own beliefs regarding religion or reconciliation. I offer it as one viewpoint on…
About sending presents when you are estranged …
In the recent communications from my daughter I learned that all gifts, flowers, and cards sent to her in the last 10 years by myself or my mother had been put in the trash. I don’t know what my mother sent to her. I hadn’t sent much as I thought there was a good chance…
Other Estrangements in more distantly related family …
My father-in-law is 81. He worked in computers from the early fifties from when computers were the size of buildings and required lots of cooling equipment to remove all the heat. He was a math genius. He could fly a plane. He had an Indian motorcycle before he married my mother-in-law. He sold the motorcycle…