I did it! I did it!

[debilorrah]

I am so proud of you!!!! YAY!!!! It took me 48 years to have that same breakthrough.

 

[DuckLady]

Good
For
You!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My father used to throw my youthful stoopid marriage in my face whenever he felt the need to insult me. I had enough after a public dressing down and the tirade I blasted him with from 4 inches from his face rendered him speechless and cannot be repeated on a family forum.

He pretty much treated me with respect after that until he disowned me when I moved to Portland.

 

[heritagebirds]

Go you!!!!

 

[Imp]

Way to go! Nobody should be pushing your buttons except you. Next time will be easier too.

Imp's mouth gets him in trouble a lot.

 

[claud]

Good for you. I know if you let those things go they can eat away at you.

 

[CedarRidgeChicks]

..good for you!!!

 

[maplesky7]

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Isn't that the truth? ...I'm living it right now with my family and it sucks big time and it's way hurtful and they are more willing to go to the hilt persisting "they know all and what's best" and are so ignorant to how they are hurting and in essentially the whole "we are there for you" doesn't mean diddly when it comes right down to it? where are they? what have they done to help? Nothing. Who's helping me? My church family. Amen to that. It's like a thorn in my side.

Hugs for you Gritty... I'm going to have a big show down coming in the theaters near you soon. Don't know when exactly... but it's a comin.

 

[gritsar]

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Every once in awhile my dad throws one of two things into our conversation that he says disappoint him about me. Either a.) I got a medical exception from PE in high school (hello! it's kinda hard to do jumping jacks with a deformed spine and legs that don't work right) or b.) that I wasn't born a boy.
He's my dad. I love him. It's just sometimes I don't like him very much.

 

[mamagardener]

Way to go!

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Every once in awhile my dad throws one of two things into our conversation that he says disappoint him about me. Either a.) I got a medical exception from PE in high school (hello! it's kinda hard to do jumping jacks with a deformed spine and legs that don't work right) or b.) that I wasn't born a boy.
He's my dad. I love him. It's just sometimes I don't like him very much.

Sounds like you need to be thinking ahead about a response the next time he mentions his disappointments in you: specifically your disappointments in him: how how could have been a supportive father who sees the best in his children and accepts responsibility for his role. For example, how did you GET a deformed spine and legs that don't work right? I'm guessing your genes play a role in that, and while I am completely unfamiliar with human genetics, I suspect that both parents contributed. As for your gender, HE definitely determined that.

I would have liked to have a birth daughter (I do have three step-daughters), but never in my wildest imagination could I regret that one of my sons was not a daughter! I would not give them up just as they are for ANYTHING!