Re: Her Only Child. the movie

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" I shouldn't know that! "

Boy, did that sentence strike a nerve with me... how many things I could put in

that category. I'm going to start a list... feel free to chime in:

" I shouldn't know that.... " but I do... things I know from being a KO:

I shouldn't know my Nada's sexual preferences and the details.

I shouldn't know her finances: since I was age 4: and how they affect/scare her

and impact me.

I shouldn't know the details of her her alleged abuse at the hands of her

father: but which no one in the family will substantiate.

I shouldn't know that the reason she left my bio dad when I was 3 is because she

" was bored and you will bore of all men so don't get too invested. "

I shouldn't know that she's had sex with her cousins: while high on pot: and

drunk: repeatedly.

I shouldn't know she only married my step dad so she didn't have to work: the

one job she held the longest in her life: 14 months.

I shouldn't know that the suicide attempts were always because I had let her

down: or that that last OD was intentional: or that I had to be a right to be

mad when my then 8year old is the one who found her.

I shouldn't know how to bandage lets she's dug up to bleeding: that guns to the

head can't be held in that position for hours on end and that she only does

these things right before I enter the room for maximum impact.

I shouldn't know how to have her committed to the psych ward with one call.

I shouldn't know how to manipulate a hoard of Dr's to get any pill I want:

anytime: anyplace.

I shouldn't know that she uses people; openly: and with great fanfare when she's

bored.

I shouldn't know that her resume is made up with stuff she never did and backed

by professional trainings she never attended: and that I have a right to be mad

because she had me writing these resumes for her since I was 13.

I shouldn't know that her current match.com: whom she now lives with and is

buying a house with: is married: and she's sick of him: and trashes him out

regularly.

I shouldn't know that she's a liar: she's dramatic: she's inconsistent: she

causes trouble and she'll never be straight with me or herself.

I should know, however, that I am NOT her...

Lynnette

Next....

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> has anyone watched " Her Only Child " a 2008 movie that is showing on lifetime

this weekend? I am going to read about it online but surely this mother is a bad

cross between borderline, narcissist and well, sociopath. Sometimes it seems

like the borders between those three things are pretty slim.

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> This mom makes my own NADA look relatively tame...but the attention seeking

need is familiar - just the extremes are a bit more extreme.

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> Not sure how often it will be repeated but Lifetime movies usually are. there

is 15 minutes left and the daughter just left her to begin NC/LC and the NADA

pulled out a gun. hmmmm...at some point, knowing the attention seeking lengths -

you can't be sure if she will use it on herself! I seem to know too well that

dead attention is better than none at all. I shouldn't know that!

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> ugh. ame

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