Night Shift

@Faith-and-Hope

QUILLING WOW

Hello @PeppiPatty. I havent met you yet, nice to meet you. i'm glad your mother in law was nice to you today.

Mine lives overseas. She actually likes me, haha! She gives my hubby (her son) a hard time though. Thats why he moved overseas.

Dear @Former-Member (moo) @Former-Member @Mazarita (where are You ??)

Yes, my whole life, I have had a continuous interfering Mother who has slagged me off in front of everyone, taken me to see a Psychiatrist to have me put in a hospital when I was 16 (long time ago) because her boyfriend moved in...

She works very hard (impressive) on how she keeps up a sad sibling rivalry on my middle poor darling brother but my youngest brother has seen the light.

No one has ever believed that a Mother can be so bad, she even wrote a book about how bad I was .....Anyways.....we in Australia have a great welfare system. We DO NOT get enough We do NOT get understood OR our public mental health Centres are years behind the rest of the world but we at least have got welfare, we dont live in Africa. We are mainly lucky in that we can make our own choices and not live in say Europe or esp. France.

Our Polotics, our Governments are only for votes, NOT about their actual core beliefs but we are aware of this.

Hello @Former-Member LOVE your name. If I had a daughter ( WANTED) I would have called her Bridget.

Speak tomorrow @Former-Member

Can all have a look at my thread on stories and experiences and give me your experiences if you can ?? PPxx

i am eating a big bowl of chichen and veg and chic peas etc etc... Its yum. Finally able to cook unusaly recipes and son will eat them ... for about 15 years I kept to sauces as he was afraid it might not be proper if I just did a random fix of spices and things ... I have had a few disasters in 30 years ... oh well shucks to that.

He asked my permission to grab a bowl and go do things on skype for fun with his dad.

Five years ago I would be very upset about that .. but I could just let him go. I know its not fair ... my life has never been fair ...

At least I have you guys to come and chat to.

It seems there will be enough structure in hospital @Former-Member ... I am an ocean girl too ... especially in the years 1976 to 1983 its what I chose for my pic ... I dont get there enough these days ... will think of you ...

Note my dear son did a bit of a standover tactic on me ... if I ever spoke to a male ... he was instantly at my side ... I wasnt that bothered about hooking up ... but I noticed when all of a sudden I was "popular" and it has more to do with gender ... than MI.

So happy for you too @PeppiPatty 😊

That sounds like there are going to be some changes for you now in terms of your mother-in-law.

And I wish your son all the best as he steps out to living beyond home. You're a beautiful mother @PeppiPatty ❣

Be careful what you wish for @Former-Member ❣ Just joking ❣

I love the Greek Australian culture, and wouldn't change it for the world, but it has been a very difficult journey for reasons beyond culture ....

It has brought an awful lot of positives too, but I have had to battle hard for them, and put a lot of my own interests aside ... not by choice .... just to be able to manage the extra-ordinary events that have come our way above and beyond what was already full-on.

I could write a best-seller ....

😂

@BlueBay

Thanks for the well wishes for my hospital admission. How are you going? Hopefully not too much longer for you to go into hospital.

Goodnight @PeppiPatty. I'm in Australia.

I'm new on here, still finding my way around and trying to remember everyone.

I will look around for your thread some time, perhaps tomorrow or later tonight.

I hope that you have support, seeing as you didnt get any from your mother.

Sleep well. xo

I just wanted to say it's really nice seeing so many people contributing so many different things tonight. I can't keep up and have had so many different facial expressions and reactions it is really cool. I also am loving not seeing my little avatar all over the place for a change so although I'm not responding much I'm definitely enjoying the conversations 💜😊

@Faith-and-Hope You should, if you have any spare time, that is, haha!

The main reason I bought a new laptop today is so I can start writing a book. I think it will be good therapy. The things hidden under the carpet will all be revealed, but without mentioning any names.

@Faith-and-Hope It is good that you separate Greek culture from history and WWII. I have had to do that to understand my exhusband's family and my own family. We are all a product of our times and place of up-bringing.