by johannasr2 | Sep 30, 2020 | Love, Parenting Adults, Relationships
I come here to these pages to work through my relationship with my daughter. There are not too many guidebooks on parenting adults. The guidebooks are always about raising young ‘uns. For me, for many years now, it’s been all about adults. This child of mine. The...
by johannasr2 | Sep 11, 2020 | Family, Love, My Illness, Parenting Adults, Relationships
All through this week, I’ve been getting the signal that loving people is not enough to make my relationships what I want them to be. My daughter left our home at Christmas this year, angry and fed up with me and her sister. I let her be angry. I didn’t...
by johannasr2 | Jul 6, 2020 | Family, Parenting Adults, Psychology, Relationships
If you are ignored by a group of people; they just don’t acknowledge you. How do you feel? It is a very strange experience and the resulting emotions are damning. Who would not be diminished by someone who does not acknowledge their existence? No ask for shared...
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...
by johannasr2 | Sep 23, 2019 | Addiction, Change, Parenting Adults
To my son the drug addict… Jeremy Paige on Unsplash What did I miss? What difference would it make to this adulthood, this one, the one that you have right now? Did I miss a crucial step that would have kept you from using drugs? Did I miss some...