Year: 2018

No, But This Time I Mean It

December 31, 2018 No Comments

I intend to end this year of insanity, by allowing my mother’s recent passing to mark the end of my active attachment to a system

I am sorry, I won't be spoken to that way. We can work to resolve this whenever you are ready and then maybe gather as a "family".

Clear Boundaries are not Grudges

December 21, 2018 No Comments

Omg. I woke up thinking about exactly this. How holding a clear and healthy boundary, within my family of origin(and marriage) gets labelled “holding a

Are You My Mother?

December 20, 2018 No Comments

To state that my feelings about and reasons for attending yesterday’s service for my mother are messy and confusing, is an understatement. At this moment, this

Our Mother Who Art in Heaven

December 17, 2018 No Comments

Dear Mother, You must be pleased that I married someone emotionally and morally similar to you and to my sister? And equally contented that YOUR