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The other Mother's Day thread.
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Sharron | Report | 8 Mar 2013 12:41 |
I really don't expect anybody else to contribute to this thread and I will delete if it upsets anybody but I love Mother's Day. It reminds me that she is dead and the sun can shine. |
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♥†۩ Carol Paine ۩†♥ | Report | 8 Mar 2013 13:26 |
There is nothing for you to feel sorry for Sharron, that person was not a mother, she was just someone who gave birth to you. |
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LilyL | Report | 8 Mar 2013 13:36 |
Oh dear Sharron, That does sound very sad. I was very lucky with my mother and miss her enormously now she is no longer with us. BUT I do understand a bit how you feel as my MIL was as you describe! nothing pleased her and if we tried to do our best for her on Mothering sunday, Birthday, Christmas(!!) it was never good enough, or we were accused of 'wanting something'!! The trouble that lady caused both to us my SIL and BIL, I could write a book!!! She died a lonely bitter old woman, mourned by no-one. Awful really, but so was she!! So I do understand how you feel, well, sort of, as she wasn't my mother, thank the lord!! |
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Sharron | Report | 8 Mar 2013 13:36 |
Thanks Carol. |
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LilyL | Report | 8 Mar 2013 13:46 |
Again Sharron, I am very sorry to hear this, and realise how lucky I was. |
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AnninGlos | Report | 8 Mar 2013 13:49 |
I do feel sorry for those of you who feel bitter and sad that your mothers were not as other mothers. Mine was one who was never one to show her love in hugs and kisses but showed she loved us in many other ways. |
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supercrutch | Report | 8 Mar 2013 13:52 |
Of course you can post this, not everyone has an ideal childhood. |
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Sharron | Report | 8 Mar 2013 13:57 |
Thank you both for your sympathy. |
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♥†۩ Carol Paine ۩†♥ | Report | 8 Mar 2013 14:03 |
My Mum's own mother died when she was 3, so she did not have the best of childhoods herself, being passed round the family, then used as an unpaid skivvy by a 'hard' stepmother. I think it was these early days that gave her an understanding as to how she could give all children the care she had lacked in her own childhood. |
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Eeyore13 | Report | 8 Mar 2013 14:03 |
I know where you're at Sharron- your other thread helped me & my siblings alot. I didn't know it was a "condition" & yes I miss her 'cause I was "conditioned" to feel that way, however, she is not remembered in the way she would've wanted, she's remembered for what she was. |
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ChrisofWessex | Report | 8 Mar 2013 14:04 |
I try not to think about mine Sharron as it still upsets me. G.dau wanted me to write about my life and complains I stopped at 5yrs. Part of me wants her to know the truth and part is reluctant to write 'warts and all'. |
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Sharron | Report | 8 Mar 2013 14:09 |
I don't know about the rest of you but I do feel it made me peculiar. |
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Eeyore13 | Report | 8 Mar 2013 14:32 |
Peculiar, wary, loads of baggage because I'll never understand & I can't ask now 'cause she's gone...& yes my fight or flight reflex stays on fight. I shudder if someone says I sound like her. |
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Sharron | Report | 8 Mar 2013 17:49 |
So you are still keeping quiet. |
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Eeyore13 | Report | 8 Mar 2013 17:56 |
She did. |
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Sharron | Report | 8 Mar 2013 17:59 |
Doesn't it just! |