Sleeping too much

Hello @Former-Member

how are you today ?? I have been thinking of you -- you must of read my mind my friend xx

Very tired @Former-Member

but I was a bit anxious watching my hubby reducing his meds during the week

but tonight he is back on his full meds xx

Hi @SC22

We have codes for people in our lives because we don't use any names here -

So if I have a TS and an alcoholic brother - who would be AB I guess but I really have little to say to him or about him - I actually snarled at him after our mother's funeral - and this is not my style in my old age at all

So - you have a family of brutal behaviours worth recording so I guess you have SB & SIL1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.

UGH!!!!

I insist on seeing my dd and her family on Christmas Day - she has a lot of step-children and I see them and their families on Christmas Eve - but I have spent New Year, some of my birthdays and most of other people's and Easter, public holidays and certain painful anniversaries alone - I get it. And both my parents are dead now - but I did have a good relationship with my father and not long before he died he and I had one of those conversations that everyone should have and few people do. When my mother died it was terrible - I fainted at home and was taken to hospital and had a nasty row with dd - how do people get to feel that their way is the only way?

It can cut to the bone - and does - and yet there really is nothing we can do about it ourselves and yes - I understand - I would do anything reasonable to help TS - but she is not going to ask - and that is her choice

You are making sense - I hope that finding some like-minded and like-suffering people here things might be a little easier tonight

We are here for each other most of the time - there is nearly always someone around and all we have to do is start posting and people start liking and commenting

I am really glad you have found us

Decadian

Wow!!!!!!!!!!

That's it @Faith-and-Hope

I can sing it now - after all the years since I took my trusty guitar around to the church and sat on the floor and played and sang with the Youth Group and I still have the tune and the words in my head (and I think they will be there all night)

I might even have it among my music - but I have a lot of that - old music I mean - I remember the song book though -

It says what @Former-Member was getting at - people as human beings are a social species - and it can be so soul-destroying when people who attend church and maybe do a lot of good at times can still get it wrong

Since I moved down to this area 43 years ago I have been to three different churches - and I left - mostly because of criticism - if people had thought - if I had felt confident to tell them - they might have been more understanding - but I left two churches - fed up

But I am still associated with the third church - because the vestry decided one service a week was enough I missed the 5.00pm week day Evening Prayers. I miss church so much - I have been into Melbourne to St Paul's Cathedral with my Tassie rellies - but they haven't been over here lately - they are aging. I have been on my own

Yes - I have this little true story - at the second church I didn't like trying to help with the dishes - people would be moving around too fast and I am never steady - and the cups would be rinsed quickly and I can hardly stand that - so I would go around during the week and wash the dishes with hot soapy water and steel wool - and to me it doesn't matter that no one cared - but it still stings that I was given a hard time for laziness

But we need our Mary people - and we need our Martha people - after all - if there were no Martha people would there be a banquet? Probably not - but what is a banquet really - it's a time of celebration - we can eat or not

Decadian