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[aid] => mick
[title] => Chain of Pain
[time] => 2009-01-15 17:42:26
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[bodytext] => She said wearily 'I am trapped in the Chain of Desperation trying to break free; my mother passed it along to me, and her mother to her and on down to me. One destroyed soul seeks its own repair but only partial healing is possible for most of us. And as luck would have it we fail more times than we succeed; sometimes consoling ourselves with the belief 'at least I am better than she.' But we are shocked to see perhaps, that not as true as we believe when we see it in our children. My moment of truth in my parenting is when we see in my child traits that can and could only have come from me. No denying it. What to do? Realize or confess its true or reject the Me I see in the child I alone reared? Rejection is the first step in keeping the chain intact. so the Chain of Pain grows and expands. My vow by the time she is eight is to stop the Chain in its tracks by overcoming the Me in Her with the sheer force of my love. [comments] => 1 [counter] => 165 [topic] => 43 [informant] => lnnie [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => oops )
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