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GonePirateSenior Contributor
i encourage you all to join me for some casual drinking, social lubrication and light laughter right here in the beer garden.
Oh and before anyone gets up in arms about alcohol and its dangers the main beer on tap is VB or virtual beer
beer is the third most commonly consumed drink in the world behind water and tea
why not share the worlds joy with friends
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Thanks so much for your feedback @Former-Member . I'll just try to keep pushing on for the time being. I am thinking I may need respite and more support soon, so I may decide to go into hospital for a few weeks. I think I may need to follow my intuition on this one, and additionally on ways for me to heal and take those steps forward. I have done it before and no reason I can't do it again.
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DecadianSenior Contributor
Hi @Faith-and-Hope and @TAB
I know what @Faith-and-Hope is going through with WH @TAB and I understand her point of view - I think WH doesn't know there is a different plan going on about his diagnosis - if I have that right
But yes - I would not be as easy to get along with - but then - I don't have to put up with the tantrums.
Still - I remember on the occasions when I would stay at my now ex-bf's house for the night and he thought breakfast in bed was a good idea - but started to yell instructions including which spoon - yeah TAB - I would take a tray with a bowl and the weetbix, milk and sugar and the right spoon up to his room and give it to him to fix for himself.
But then - he was just being picky - @Faith-and-Hope's WH has something else happening
We don't know what it's like to walk in someone else's shoes - we never know if there is a different plan that - eg - WH - doesn't know about
And then there is love - and when people are at their most unlovable they need the most love - even if it is sandwiches with the crusts cut off or whatever - something we can't see - but which needs as much respect as anyone else
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DecadianSenior Contributor
Thanks @Faith-and-Hope
Every time you explain something I get a better picture - it seems - without the info - as if he is a control freak but I know better than that now
Is Orthorexia am Eating Disorder? I guess it is but if I leave this post now the chances are I won't find it again so I will look in a minute
I remember that you said once that your WH's behaviour had been so extreme it was endangering his health - so he has stopped these heart-hacking swimming sprints - he can't be a teenager any more now - so this would be scary -
Really - this must take all your Christian love and tolerance and more - and I appreciate it when you give us some more insight - because this is a story of love that is immense -
Many of us were brought up treated with less understanding and tolerance - my grumbling appendix was ignored until I nearly died - and among other things about other issues I have been told that the older generation lived through one or two wars and a depression and this was hard - we don't have that now
And this lack of tolerance toward people today wears thin with me - are we any less at war than having world wars? - are we any more financially stable that the great depression?I don't think so - but in this century people are seeing more about MI and emotional discomfort
My mind is open for more education - many people do not have an open mind - and it is a good thing that in this day and age more people are caring and I am so glad to have found so many of these sensitive people in this website
Decadian
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