http://american-family.org/2008/02/15/black-sheep/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:57:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://american-family.org/2008/02/15/black-sheep/comment-page-1/#comment-71595 chris Sun, 17 Feb 2008 23:16:33 +0000 http://american-family.org/2008/02/15/black-sheep/#comment-71595 My family is so disfunctional, I probably don't have much to add. But I will say that my friend swears by Dream Dinners. Someone gave us one when we had the twins (frozen, to thaw when we wanted). It was good. My family is so disfunctional, I probably don’t have much to add. But I will say that my friend swears by Dream Dinners. Someone gave us one when we had the twins (frozen, to thaw when we wanted). It was good.

]]> http://american-family.org/2008/02/15/black-sheep/comment-page-1/#comment-71522 a.t Sun, 17 Feb 2008 08:19:26 +0000 http://american-family.org/2008/02/15/black-sheep/#comment-71522 I feel exactly the same way about my mom and I can't believe it happens to other people too. I mean, my mom is lovely. She's a wonderful person and everything and I love her in the way a child is expected to love a parent but if we weren't related, there is no way I would ever get along with her. Our relationship improved so much when she moved 6000 miles away but everytime one of us visits the other, the screaming matches start. Her family used to make me feel guilty that we could only get along when she's far away, but I think we've come to terms that we need distance to maintain our relationship. I feel exactly the same way about my mom and I can’t believe it happens to other people too. I mean, my mom is lovely. She’s a wonderful person and everything and I love her in the way a child is expected to love a parent but if we weren’t related, there is no way I would ever get along with her. Our relationship improved so much when she moved 6000 miles away but everytime one of us visits the other, the screaming matches start. Her family used to make me feel guilty that we could only get along when she’s far away, but I think we’ve come to terms that we need distance to maintain our relationship.

]]> http://american-family.org/2008/02/15/black-sheep/comment-page-1/#comment-71456 lisa Sat, 16 Feb 2008 18:57:08 +0000 http://american-family.org/2008/02/15/black-sheep/#comment-71456 No-speaking as someone who has experienced that sense of surprise about ten years longer than you-it never really goes away. Love my sisters dearly, very proud of them, very little to converse about. With my mother, it's a little weirder. We're very close. I think I connect with a part of her that she sent underground a long time ago-but, well, I just spent 3 weeks with her in China, so I am feeling very aware of the shortcomings in our connection. I do think some of that is because I look so much like my father and have a lot of his independent personality, and it scares her. Re my daughter-no connection with the picture-in person I instantly felt like I have known her all my life-can't imagine that ever changing in any way. ~lmc No-speaking as someone who has experienced that sense of surprise about ten years longer than you-it never really goes away. Love my sisters dearly, very proud of them, very little to converse about. With my mother, it’s a little weirder. We’re very close. I think I connect with a part of her that she sent underground a long time ago-but, well, I just spent 3 weeks with her in China, so I am feeling very aware of the shortcomings in our connection. I do think some of that is because I look so much like my father and have a lot of his independent personality, and it scares her.
Re my daughter-no connection with the picture-in person I instantly felt like I have known her all my life-can’t imagine that ever changing in any way. ~lmc

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