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07 Nov 2017 12:06 PM
07 Nov 2017 12:06 PM
My sweet beautiful Claire @outlander
You don't have to respond.
I just wanted to say, I think sharing the burden is what this Forum is all about. Each member is free to choose what they take on and what they don't. Real friendships are formed here, and real friends are not burdened when someone they care for is in need of releasing the thoughts in their head Instead I think it strengthens those friendships, because of the trust that is shown by honesty - whether it's negitive or positive. I step back a lot, I think it's one of those neccessary lessons in Forumland - but I hear, I care, I do my very best to understand. And I know there is always other friends that will step forward when I can't. Of course you are allowed to choose sufferance in silence, I think sometimes it's needed - a point at which a person somehow knows they have to stop thinking negitive things and the silence is a way of doing that.
I think I'm going to exchange my Christmas gift and instead I will give your Family the strength to leave.
Everything changes, including you and me. I love you the way you were, the way you are and the way you will be You are my only beautiful cyber-grandgirl, special and unique
Nanny Niqua
07 Nov 2017 12:15 PM
07 Nov 2017 12:15 PM
07 Nov 2017 12:40 PM
07 Nov 2017 12:40 PM
Oh Claire how I wish the same thing - though I'd rather it was a less toxic part of the bush . . . and definately a lot cooler part 🙂 I think maybe I'm more of an optimist than most see me as - I definately know that feeling of not caring anymore . . . and yet I see a good side to it; I think it drops the stress levels a little. Though I think, from my own point of view, when I feel like that, I'm lying a little to myself. If I truely didn't care I would feel happier, and I don't. I think more to the truth that feeling is simply exhaustion - I just can't keep up with all the worries around me. I think many experiences that everybody has, nobody deserves, but we experience them anyhow. Thank you for sharing your honestly with me. I understand that you feel like a burden to others, because you care about others . . . and that's the curse that goes along with that.
I'm about to make myself coffee number 3 {which is naughty, I try to stick to 2} . . . would you like one?
07 Nov 2017 12:55 PM
07 Nov 2017 12:55 PM
07 Nov 2017 01:07 PM
07 Nov 2017 01:07 PM
Hi, I'm feeling much the same, do you mind me joining your conversation??
07 Nov 2017 01:08 PM
07 Nov 2017 01:08 PM
07 Nov 2017 01:09 PM
07 Nov 2017 01:09 PM
I can't do anything right @outlander
07 Nov 2017 01:11 PM
07 Nov 2017 01:11 PM
07 Nov 2017 01:14 PM
07 Nov 2017 01:14 PM
It's just me doing all the wrong things but not getting what the wrong things are. I must be stupid,mer ally stupid.
07 Nov 2017 01:16 PM
07 Nov 2017 01:16 PM
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