tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25650841422499316412024-03-19T04:22:04.141-07:00Kathi Write NowLiving my life with mental illness and trying not to be defined by it.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00211618356449501929noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2565084142249931641.post-61842622760726338062015-01-12T14:40:00.004-08:002015-01-12T14:40:45.889-08:0010 Things a Mother getting divorced wants her daughters to know<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial Black, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 21px;">Recently, my 20 year old daughter asked me why even bother getting married. I told her that 50% of couples stay married, some even get their happy ever after. </span></b></span><b style="font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 21px;">This is the advice I gave her on how, I thought, she would have a shot at a happy married life.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">1. He is not going to
change. Even though he may say he will, and you may be able to modify his
behavior somewhat, i.e. get him to call when he's going to be late. What you see, is
what you get. WYSIWYG.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">2. Do not under any
circumstance; put aside your own dreams, goals, aspirations for his. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">3. Compromise,
don't acquiesce.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">4. Share the
responsibility of raising your children. Your job is not less important because
you are the woman. Take turning taking days off from work when kids are sick,
have school functions or days off from school.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">5. As life happens and
routine takes over make sure you make it priority to have a date night with
your husband. You don't have to go out. Even just sharing a glass of wine after
the kids have gone to bed can help you keep connected to your husband.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">6. Nurture the
relationship to keep communication alive. One of the reasons
men stray is because they don't feel like they're being paid attention
to by their wives. This means if there are chores and you feel they have to be done right now, they don't. They can wait.
Make time to connect with your husband. The laundry will still be there. Who knows? Maybe
he'll even help with the chores so you can have more time together. Ideally, he
will already be helping with the chores. For example, he does the dinner clean up and you
help the kids with homework.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">7. Do not let
yourself go. Pamper yourself. Get your hair colored, nails done, go to the gym. </span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Happy wife equals happy
life. Remember to love yourself. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">8. Understand marriage
is not a 50/50 relationship. Most of the time marriage is a 90/10 split. Just
make sure you're not always being the one giving 90%. This will lead to build
up resentment that will only build over time and lead to
explosive arguments.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">9. Go away on trips with
your husband without the kids.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">10. If he cheats, it's
not because of you. It's because of him and who he is as a person.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The red string of fate</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">is an East Asian</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">belief that comes from Chinese legend</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">and is also used in Japanese legends. According to this myth, the gods tie a red cord around the ankles of those that are to meet one another in a certain situation or help each other in a certain way. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">The two people connected by the red thread are destined lovers, regardless of time, place, or circumstances. This magical cord may stretch or tangle, but never break.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Could the red string of fate be responsible for saving my life? </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Of soul mates, it is said that when the two find each other, there is an unspoken understanding of one another, that they feel unified and would stay with each other and would know no greater joy than that.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> I don't think it quite works like that but I'll tell you the story that happened to me. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">They show up just when you need them, maybe not at the exact moment, but they come at some point when the need is still there. They help you understand your problem, maybe present it from an angle you didn't see before. But they somehow help you through it. Sometimes they stay, sometimes the don't. But they help you heal your soul. Some people would say that it is God's hand in helping us get through a difficult period in our lives. I don't profess to know, but I do know recognized when someone is there to help. Maybe you prayed and you feel God answered your prayers. Maybe he does. But I know that when one of these red string people show up I am grateful for their help.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">My experience happened about a year ago. I was playing an online video game and a met a man who I could tell was very guarded but seemed to be reaching out to me. For some reason I felted compelled to help this man work through his problems. He was extremely shy yet told me things about himself that he had not told anyone. I chalked it up to sometimes it's easier to talk to a stranger about these personal things. As we continued to talk, we learned we had so much in common. My connection to him grew. He helped me figure out things in my own life that I had not been able to deal with. He gave me courage to drawn back the dark drapes I had placed over my own eyes. He showed me a glimpse of what my future could be.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">In that glimpse I saw myself happy. Living a very different live than the one I am mired in now. He gave me back my self-esteem. He stopped me from killing myself. But with these relationship some times once the goal is achieved the relationship ends. I tried to pull at the red string to make my time with him last longer, but all I did was make it fray. A single thread remains now, it's the memory I will always have of what we did for each other. I hope I have the courage to be brave and live the life he showed me I could have. I just know I miss him but will be forever grateful to him to having come into my life.</span></div>
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Another Christmas has come and gone and once again I didn't feel it. It makes me so sad to see other people enjoying the holiday, when I am unable to share in the joy and excitement that they feel. I like seeing other people's faces light up as they open a gift you've given them. Especially one that you know they will really like. But as for me, I know I have to perform. It's important that I let them see the happiness in my face when I open the gift they have given me.</div>
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One of the worst things I have to endure is watching TV. Almost everything is somehow Christmas related. All the regular TV shows have been replaced with stale, seen a million time, Christmas movies or specials. I then have to sit there, with the family, watching these shows, where, once again, everything has a happy ending. Well, that's not how it works in my life and I'm sitting there thinking this is totally BS. </div>
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I realized that my depression is most likely to blame for the way I feel. I have a family and I don't want to bring down their holiday spirit. If they only knew how I was feeling inside. How, for me, my life as of now, doesn't have a happy ending. I smile and hopefully put on a good enough act so won't know that I'm not enjoying the holiday, that I'm actually dreading it. </div>
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It also didn't help that the new medication I am taking has not yet been approved by my insurance company. There are multiple hoops my doctor and I must jump through in order to get my insurance company to pay for part of it. I wonder if I would have felt differently had I not run out of my prescription on Christmas Eve. </div>
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My insurance company finally approved the drug for my health plan and I can start to take it again. The medication is called Latuda. It's is an anti-psychotic drug that also has shown promise for people who are bi-polar. It's new and I think I finally found the correct medicine for me. My family and friends say I am acting like my old self again. So, maybe I will get my happy ending after all. With the talk therapy and the correct medicine, I am once again finding interest in things. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Everywhere you look it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. It's a stressful time of the year for most everyone. But for some people it's more than stressful, it brings on or exacerbates feelings of depression.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Depression is an illness. It's a disease that affects the production of certain chemicals in the brain. These chemicals that allow a person to feel good simply aren't being created in a depressed persons brain. </span><br />
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<i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: '', sans-serif, '', serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">“In order to succeed, your desire for success
should be greater than your </span></i><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><a href="http://addicted2success.com/success-advice/5-ways-to-destroy-the-illusion-of-fear/"><span style="background: white; color: blue; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">fear</span></a></span></i><i><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></i><i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: '', sans-serif, '', serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">of
failure.” – Bill Cosby</span></i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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people are afraid of being attacked by a shark. But surfers, despite knowing
that sharks are in the ocean when they're surfing, are willing to take a chance because their love of the sport overcomes their fear. Many surfers, even
after being attacked, will still return to the water when their wounds heal and surf again.</span></span></div>
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Losing your job, being alone in a dark alley at night, or the death of a loved
one, these are all examples of what people think when you ask them what is their
greatest fear.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15pt;"> Fear seems understandable when you are
faced with a real threat. But all fear is not the same. There is a difference. It is
things we aren't willing to do that we should fear the most. The opportunities we don't take because of irrational fears. When you're always wanted to ride a burro down into the Grand </span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Canyon and the ability presents itself. Why do you pass?</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15pt;"> Why do you fear it? It's on your bucket list.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Letting go of your fears allows you to do
things and act in ways you would have never allowed yourself to do. Ask
yourself what I have anyways wanted to try? Have you always wanted to fly a
plane, go skydiving, or ride in a hot air balloon? These are just a few ideas
that many people dismiss out of hand because of their fear.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Face your fears. Be yourself. Don’t worry what others think or do. We try to conform to
society; pressures are intense to be like everyone else because that is what
you feel like you are supposed to do. Yet going against your nature, trying to
be something you're not you can actually have physical manifestations.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Living as though
you have nothing to lose is the most freeing way to live your life. In the
movie, "Yes Man", Jim Carey plays a character, who, because of a wish his son makes, has to say yes to everything he's asked to do. Despite the fear he feels,
he does things he would have never done before if he hadn't fallen under the spell. He meets a girl, falls in love,
has great adventures, and gets a job promotion. Not letting his fears
rule him allows him life to live a richer and fuller life.</span></span></div>
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people miss out on opportunities to fall in love, because falling in love
requires you to take a risk. Putting yourself out there and being vulnerable to having
your heart broken. Don't be afraid to be yourself, to make new friends. Take a chance. You never know what will happen unless you open yourself up to new experiences.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; font-weight: normal;">They
say the truth will set you free. I believe it is facing your fears and pushing
through them that will set you free, because only when we face our fears and
overcome them are we ever truly free.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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