by johannasr2 | Apr 24, 2025 | Addiction, Change, Communication, Family, Feelings, Parenting Adults
Notes from a Parent Realizing a Child is Addicted and Wishing her own Mother was Alive / Circa 2001 This book is not about my mother, who has been the sole subject of my musings for more than five years; it is about raising children and being human. I am engaging in...
by johannasr2 | May 2, 2024 | Addiction, Family, Feelings, Fibromyalgia, Internet Communication, Love, Parenting Adults, Relationships
Mothering Addiction And You’re so Angry With Me Why? You could have asked me any question, at any time. You didn’t. Instead, you used the time to attack, to bruise, to hit. You didn’t seem to care that you were doing as awful damage as anyone to anyone. I am 60,...
by johannasr2 | Apr 8, 2023 | Addiction, Family, Parenting Adults, Psychology, Relationships
And he doesn’t even like that; the first thing I ever gave him was his name, and he doesn’t like it. He goes by Russ. Russ & his Mother: JB Collection July 2011 Right now, he is very angry with me. He says that I am always trying to get him into political...
by johannasr2 | Jul 5, 2021 | Addiction, Family, Parenting Adults, Psychology
I get that working with an addicted loved one can be traumatizing and cause anger and pain. What I don’t get is all of the anger pushed outward, to be pressed on others who are *at best* sideliners to the drama unfolding in the family. Addiction can and does tear...
by johannasr2 | Mar 6, 2020 | Addiction, Parenting Adults
darya tryfanava on Unsplash He brought his grief with him. He apologized for interrupting me. He was completely unconscious of his thoughts and emotions. I think that he believed that if he could control the universe that is visible to him that he...
by johannasr2 | Dec 13, 2019 | Addiction, Parenting Adults
Kahlil Gibran said something to the effect of: your children are not of you, but move through you. They have their own path to be taken by them and not you. I want to come from higher thinking, accepting of all that my child does or is and yet… I saw myself as...
