by johannasr2 | Oct 25, 2026 | Family, Love, Parenting, Psychology, Relationships
(Your child does come with directions.) Your life will never be the same. It’s a lifetime commitment, you’ve made a commitment forever. I remember when my first 19 year old was going through some very challenging times. She was making lifelong decisions. I was right...
by johannasr2 | Aug 31, 2026 | Family, Parenting, Parenting Adults, Psychology, Relationships
Action and Consequence Actions create more actions, sometimes as consequences, sometimes as meh. More often than not it’s a consequence that follows an action. Which brings me to the idea of parenting. So many people are lonely enough humans that they identify their...
by johannasr2 | Jun 11, 2026 | Disability, Family, Fibromyalgia, My Illness
It was one of those days when it was $hitty to be disabled. Not because I thought it was $hitty but because others just didn’t want to understand what it’s like to have an invisible disability. I keep on inviting my brother and his girlfriend to our home for dinner...
by johannasr2 | Nov 28, 2025 | Clarity, Communication, Family, Relationships, Response to Trauma
Again, I’ve been watching this behavior all of my life and want to give good examples to help people identify when gaslighting is happening in their life. Let’s say you have a happy couple and they have a couple of children together. The wife is constantly complaining...
by johannasr2 | Nov 20, 2025 | Addiction, Change, Childhood Abuse, Family, Parenting, Parenting Adults
Recently, my son sent his daughter a meme that showed a daughter being sad because her addict dad died while and when she was still angry with him for abandoning her. This is a key feature of addiction; children always feel abandoned by the addict parent and try to...
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...
