1. I don’t have to spend time with people who insult me, call me names, and think I am a horrible rotten worthless person.<\/p>\n
2. I don’t have to spend time with people who dislike me.<\/p>\n
3. I don’t have to spend time with people who are bored when they spend time with me.<\/p>\n
4. When there are holidays, I can spend them with people whose company I enjoy and who enjoy my company.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
5. I don’t have to do anything for people who are unappreciative of whatever I do.<\/p>\n
6. I don’t worry about nasty messages on my answering machine to
\ngreet me when I come home. (If my daughter is reading this, remember
\nthat not everything applies to you.)<\/p>\n
7. I can spend time doing things I enjoy with other people who enjoy
\nthem too. They don’t consider these things stupid or boring. I like
\nantiques, movies, art, dining out, and reading. <\/p>\n
8. I don’t have to spend time with people who would prefer to be somewhere else.<\/p>\n
9. I don’t have to worry about how I am going to make someone happy who would prefer to be somewhere else.<\/p>\n
10. I don’t have to be irritated because someone is not enjoying
\nwhere I am taking them to eat or freaking out over how much I am
\nspending on the meal. (If Robin is reading this, see note with #6.)<\/p>\n
11. I don’t have to spend time around people who I have to walk on eggshells around.<\/p>\n
12. I don’t have to spend time with people who tell me later that
\nthey were uncomfortable, unwelcome, unsomething and that I tried to
\ntrap them in my house during an ice storm. Nor do I have to listen to
\nthem when they insist that their spouse felt the same way. This does
\nnot make it true. Sorry but it doesn’t. And no, that was not a sorry in
\nthe sense of an apology. That was an ironic sarcastic sorry.<\/p>\n
13. I don’t have to put aside time for people who come to visit and
\nthen want to spend their visit going elsewhere without inviting me
\nalong. I could have spent my time doing something else too if I knew
\nthat they didn’t want actually to visit with me.<\/p>\n
14. I don’t have to spend time with people whose visit I was looking
\nforward to and then who told me how much I didn’t want to see them.<\/p>\n
15. I don’t have to spend time with people who assume that the
\nmaintenance of roads in my state is the same as maintenance of roads in
\ntheir state and that my intention is to trap them in my house. Who
\nneeds this? Like I don’t know how roads are maintained where I live and
\nwhere they live?<\/p>\n
16. I know that I won’t be getting a phone call from them so I won’t be expecting one.<\/p>\n
17. I don’t have to wait for people to visit who don’t want to see me.<\/p>\n
18. I don’t suffer migraine headaches any more. This alone may make being estranged worth it for me.<\/p>\n
And the top reason why I am happy to be estranged:<\/p>\n
19. I have more time and energy for people who want to see me, who
\nenjoy my company, who like to talk with me, who appreciate me, who hug
\nme and whom I hug, This is very cool!<\/p>\n
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