Night Shift

@Faith-and-Hope, @Mazarita, @Angels333 xx

My mum is such a strong , very postive , independent lady , she strongly believes one day at a time , you get up , dusts yourself off and carry on

what she went through is unbeleivable , as my dad was very controling , and she wasn`t allowed to go anywhere, and she was given just so much to live on ,

so when we left , it was hard , but it was sooo good

Your mum sounds like one a-may-zing lady @Shaz51 ❣

And that uncle of yours deserves a medal ❣

My heart goes out to you too @Shaz51. You obviously inherited a lot of spirit from your mum. Mine was like that too. So special ....

❤️

yes @Faith-and-Hope, i had to have lots of tutoring at school and help with my speech

@Angels333, yes my uncle is funny , he does some strangest things at times

Haha I rang him up for his 91st birthday and now I am his favourite niece

I know there is no excuse on what dad did , but I think he had Depression and didn`t know how to cope and being mum coming from a strong family didn`t know how to help him

and because it was a long time ago , there was no help around

yes @Faith-and-Hope, it great having someone special in our lives xx my mumturns 85 next week

Hello my friend @Jacques, it is so great to see you

how are you today ?

thank you for those hugs , sending you hugs too

Hello @comet

how are you today ?? it is raining up here

how is your day going

Hi @eth

I have had a struggle with the idea of transgender people going so far they need surgery when they only need change their clothes and haircut - even register as the opposite sex

Many years ago I had a friend at university - we often had lunch together - and it was a normal friendship between women - and she told me that she had gone the whole way with the surgery - and she was anything but happy

Long-story-short - she disappeared - and it was my chance that I met a transgender friend of hers who was really happy with her choices - but she had to tell me that my friend had taken her own life - and to this day I feel really sorry - for it had happened a long time before I knew and I still ask "Why....."

So we do try to be supportive our our adult children's choices - my parents were not happy with some of mine - and my father tried to get me to stop my daughter's marrigate and not to let her drive the car she had - and I had to tell him "She's of legal age Dad - and that car is mine and it is road-worthy" and refrained from mentioning that he had tried to stop my marriage and it was one of the things that made me go ahead

Do adult children try and make their olds happy? Maybe - but they have to live their lives with with their own choices - tough as that is

So I support you in being supportive - we may not like it but that's what's happening. I insisted on my choices - not nearly as radical - but to do so - I had to walk away from my family of origin for months - sometimes years - and I don't regret any of my choices

But yes - our kids can make their choices - and we will have them in our lives we if tell them we don't like it but we accept it

Tough though @eth - very tough

Decadian