tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6995313306997352940.post5146016084862437084..comments2023-10-20T15:06:46.493+01:00Comments on A Changing Life: My motherA.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04709794851766685322noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6995313306997352940.post-24861179556082259912007-08-15T20:55:00.000+01:002007-08-15T20:55:00.000+01:00Hello and thank you for your encouragement Amy. I...Hello and thank you for your encouragement Amy. I know you are right and it is a total illusion to believe that my mother will change. I'm not hoping for it. But from time to time I admit to feeling regret that it won't happen. I'm going to apply myself to devoting my energy to my future as you suggest. Tell me Amy, have you had the operation?<BR/>13 March 2007Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6995313306997352940.post-76881879701094612882007-08-15T20:52:00.000+01:002007-08-15T20:52:00.000+01:00My name is Amy and I've just read your "story". T...My name is Amy and I've just read your "story". The first thing that came to mind is that I have the feeling that it's my story that's being told except for small details. And the first answer that came to me is as Cath said, you can't do any more. Our mothers, with their lives, their education. They haven't learnt to communicate with their daughters, even if I had a great understanding with Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6995313306997352940.post-51270902486840658602007-08-15T20:36:00.000+01:002007-08-15T20:36:00.000+01:00Hello Cath! Thank you for your nice message which ...Hello Cath! Thank you for your nice message which warmed my heart. Unfortunately it's 16 May, my operation. So I have to wait a bit but it's not a problem, it gives me time to get used to the idea mentally for what I have set out to do by doing this, the importance of these steps. To understand fully that whatever happens, I "have myself" as you say.<BR/>8 March 2007Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6995313306997352940.post-36889753821852523382007-08-15T20:24:00.000+01:002007-08-15T20:24:00.000+01:00HelloYou don't know me but I discovered your adven...Hello<BR/>You don't know me but I discovered your adventure on the "Vieux c'est mieux" blog.<BR/>You aren't alone. You have "yourself" already, with your courage and your strength.<BR/>Having yourself is a huge thing. You are your best ally, your best friend, your most faithful support.<BR/>Look to the present, towards tomorrow. Yesterday is not very important, it's done. Neither you nor Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6995313306997352940.post-17053434682950105982007-08-15T20:16:00.000+01:002007-08-15T20:16:00.000+01:00You're right Claude. I don't want to devote my li...You're right Claude. I don't want to devote my life to resenting my mother. I prefer to take my own route, a route which is my own and on which I feel good. It's not easy and at times I tell myself that I would have liked my mother to have started this route for me...<BR/>Thank you for your support Claude. It does me a great deal of good.<BR/>7 March 2007Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6995313306997352940.post-37542999799333505232007-08-15T20:12:00.000+01:002007-08-15T20:12:00.000+01:00Who doesn't resent their mother? You see, I'm 62 ...Who doesn't resent their mother? You see, I'm 62 and I have resented lots of things about her. Sometimes still I manage to resent this or that. But I also tell myself that, considering the sort of person she was, the education she had, and the life she had, she did what she could.<BR/>You are young and you can go forward. She is of another generation and no doubt thought she did her best. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com