We texted her that it had been not okay to treat me this way and then get quiet

We texted her that it had been not okay to treat me this way and then get quiet

Then i can’t see us being in each other’s lives if that is how she communicates.

When you look at the brief minute, I felt We asserted my boundaries, plus it felt empowering. But we all messed up and could have dealt along with it far better. More about that later on.

That we cultivated over months of getting to know each other was destroyed in a few seconds it took to write our texts from a triggered place as you can imagine, that triggered her abandonment anxiety, and suddenly, a beautiful connection.

Our reptilian child minds had been facing down, both feeling unsafe, and now we could not any longer hear one another.

Coronavirus would not let us hook up, so we had been stuck with all the worst kind of interaction, mobiles. Continue reading “We texted her that it had been not okay to treat me this way and then get quiet”

Dealing with Having an adult child that is estranged

Dealing with Having an adult child that is estranged

Another Mother’s Day has arrived and gone. It had been full of both blessings and discomfort.

Mothering is much like that. Lately, certainly one of my young ones ended up being estranged from me personally. It absolutely was maybe maybe maybe not the way I envisioned a relationship with a child that is adult. During the time, we ended up beingn’t totally certain where she had been residing together with no way that is reliable contact her. Continue reading “Dealing with Having an adult child that is estranged”