I'm tired of cooking/preparing 3 meals a day. It's just the two of us but boy oh boy can that woman eat!! She stays slimish, I get fattish. It's bad enough I do everything here much less start making her one thing and me the other. At times I feel guilty when I buy her fast food cuz of the nutritional value....not to mention I eat it too.
Don’t think it’s cheating. Blind people are grateful for read aloud features. It’s very useful in certain situations for lots of different reasons, sighted and non sighted people.
All lives are important. Everyone on the helicopter matters. There was a small plane that crashed before our LSU championship game. One of our local newscasters was killed. All deaths are sad. Personally, I think we should respect the privacy of those who lost loved ones. They are grieving and don’t want to face the press. Kate Spade’s husband wanted to be left alone to grieve in peace without having a camera shoved in his face. I hate seeing a microphone or camera shoved in someone’s face. Sad.
I don’t think anyone feels more sad just because a person is famous. They feel sad because a life was lost, no matter who it is. I would feel bad for a life loss if it was an ordinary person like myself or a famous person.
It just makes headlines for the famous.
I am glad that Tiger is back in his game and he really struggled with it due to health issues. I admire him for saying he wanted to be back on top for his kids to remember him as a professional golfer and not as the serial cheater he became with his wife. She had to leave him. He was off the rails for awhile.
Do you think that when some people reach that kind of fame they lose it? You know, they can’t handle the fame in a healthy way. They think they can do whatever they like.
Tiger was a bit crazy in his personal life and I am sure that his wife felt like she had no other choice but to leave him. Like Weinstein’s wife. Some stay, Cosby’s wife didn’t divorce him.
I can’t imagine finding out that my husband was a serial cheater. People forgive after an affair but I feel serial cheating is a different story.
Someone standing outside my window would have gotten an earful....
emotional incest? And everything else.
Kinda turns words into an audio book.
Oh no! How do you turn it off? How far back does it go?
Somebody help me!
Coming from Colorado, I can tell you that he was not very welcome there! Having said that, can anyone tell me the names of the other victims on the helicopter?? If not, why not??
I feel so sorry for those who lost loved ones in the crash and have been all but forgotten!
Were their lives any less important??
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/27/sports/basketball/kobe-bryant-rape-case.html
I feel sad for his 13 year old, but nothing to miss about him.
I don’t blame you. You are his wife. Not his mother. You don’t have to rescue him.
My God they confirmed his 13 year daughter was killed, along with one of her team mates and their parent. As a wife and mother I cannot even begin to imagine the grief! Kobe Bryant is a legend to my generation. He was 2 years older than me. Watching someone our age play for the NBA was huge. This is a very sad day.
Unconfirmed, and evolving news reports Kobe's 4 young daughters were also killed in the crash.
Of course we wish this was untrue, all of it.
In addition to his family's loss, in addition to sports fan's loss, my condolences to at home caregivers receiving this sad news in tears today.
You are not alone in your grief.
Horrific and sad news.
wow
ETA—was just confirmed :(
Google it and you will find that emotional or "covert" incest means the same as an enmeshed emotional relationship except it is with a family member like mother/ daughter, father/daughter, or mother/son. In such bonds, the parent has made their child their emotional partner sometimes in response to a bad marriage or a divorce.
My mom did this to me as a divorced mom, and my wife's mom did this to her. My wife's dad did this with her identical twin sister. Having twins, their parents primarily focused on one child more than on the other.
There is a good article on Psych Central about this.
Patricia Love wrote a book about this, The Emotional Incest Syndrome: What to do When a Parent's Love Rules Your Life.
Kenneth Adams has written two books on this, Silently Seduced: When Parents Make Their Children Partners, and When He’s Married to Mom: How to Help Mother-Enmeshed Men Open Their Hearts to True Love and Commitment.
Someone, not me, will one day write a book for mother enmeshed daughters.
So often when we hear the word "incest" we think sex. There's nothing sexual about emotional or covert incest. However, some of the resulting problems can be similar to victims of overt incest which is sexual. There is a thin line between the two which sometimes is crossed, but that is another dynamic.
I just get so frustrated seeing this dynamic that I feel like being blunt and calling it emotional incest instead of parent/child emotional enmeshment.
The other day during my Costco trip, I bought the kids, as a treat, a box of “Hostess Donettes”, mini donuts. They came in a big box and in the big box was a box of chocolate mini donuts and a box of white powdered donuts. My son had pack of chocolate donuts this morning and when I saw him with another pack of chocolate donuts mid afternoon, I told him to put them back because he already had one today. “One per day” I told him. So tonight I fixed the kids dinner and then hopped in the shower while they ate. When I was done, I went to the living room and had this conversation with my son:
me: “son did you eat your dinner?”
son: grins at me “yes but I cheated the system”.
me: “how did you cheat the system?”
son: holds up a pack of white powered donuts with one left “i already had the chocolate ones today but I didn’t have the white ones yet”.
I had to admit I laughed at that because he DID the system! He found a loophole and abused it! We did have a discussion about and now he knows I meant one pack total per day, not one pack of each. And now I am left wondering where the heck this kid learned about “cheating the system”.
I already took a senior's driving class. It did make me more confident.
But the drivers on the road did not take an extra class, unless it was a stunt driver's class on a speedway.