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Mental Health Support

Think. Again.

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2. I wish all of you the best...

Reply to FirstLight (Original post)

Sat Jan 18, 2025, 04:55 PM

Jan 2025

I've had similar relationships with people I love, and looking back now, I wish we all could have recognized that maybe the biggest obstacle to a peaceful life was the pain we each held individually, for our own individual reasons.

I think maybe our separate pain was made us so vulnerable to unintentional hurt from those we loved, and I think maybe if we had all kept that thought in the forefront of our interactions with each other, it may have made for more consideration, and more desire to keep our relationships positive, helpful, and hopeful for ourselves, for the others, and for our family as a whole.

I really do wish all of you the best.

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I'm not ok... (rant about my adult son and his gf/baby in my house) SORRY, LONG!!!!! [View all] FirstLight Jan 2025 OP

Those people are "abusers" and they are ... Tarzanrock Jan 2025 #1

oh, you make it sound so easy. FirstLight Jan 2025 #4

The issue is not your son ... Tarzanrock Jan 2025 #10

Number one, his job is supposed to start this week FirstLight Jan 2025 #12

I wish all of you the best... Think. Again. Jan 2025 #2

I have a LOT of insight into this whole family's generational trauma. And have been really working HARD with my therapis FirstLight Jan 2025 #3

I'm glad to hear you're working with a therapist... Think. Again. Jan 2025 #5

I wish for your sake that you had an impartial extended family member or friend to play intermediary... hlthe2b Jan 2025 #6

I haven't been drinking! I only had the thought... and I am resolute. FirstLight Jan 2025 #7

Well... We care. Hang in there! hlthe2b Jan 2025 #8

Kick them out. PoindexterOglethorpe Jan 2025 #9

I totally agree. Tarzanrock Jan 2025 #11

Well thanks now I feel even worse. FirstLight Jan 2025 #13

Doing what's right is difficult. MotownPgh Jan 2025 #16

I'm in L.A. County, CA Tarzanrock Jan 2025 #14

I hope it all works out. You must be your first priority. LoisB Jan 2025 #15

The County Department of Public Social Services here in California ... Tarzanrock Jan 2025 #17

Part of the issue is that they're between California and Nevada right now and they moved from Kansas FirstLight Jan 2025 #18

A little California law ... Tarzanrock Jan 2025 #19

I texted her and told her that I'm worried for her and her baby safety FirstLight Jan 2025 #20

She says she's not being abused and the baby's fine. FirstLight Jan 2025 #21