Re : Re: One thing I don't like about Facebook ...

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Dear Alice,

Oh, how much I know this too ! I get nervous every time I read these FB. posts

about " how much I love my mum she's so fantastic, blablabla.... " I never like

and never share this too ! 

It reminds me my childhood at school we had to prepare a hand made gift for

mother's day and another one for father's day. I hated these days !

It was always the same thing. She was opening my gift with no passion, looking

at what I had made with so much love, with no emotion, then putting it back into

its gift paper and throwing it into a cupboard forever.

Years later one day I thought : Why not taking back my gifts from the cupboard

and considering they are mine and celebrating them by exposing them in my own

house as my handmade treasures from my childhood ? And I did it ! And today I

show them to my children and I tell them the story about my mother's days.

Father's days were also terribles for me as nada hidded to me my Dad's identity

during 13 years. Coming back from school with my Father's day gifts, I was

running quickly into my bedroom and puting my " gift for the unknown one " into a

drawer forever, as I had noone to offer it to !

Mother's days and father's days could be crual times for some Kids ! 

Take all very good care of yourselves !

Much Love !

Natacha

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À : " WTOAdultChildren1 " <WTOAdultChildren1 >

Envoyé le : Vendredi 13 avril 2012 23h56

Objet : Re: Re: One thing I don't like about Facebook ...

 

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To: WTOAdultChildren1

Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 2:52 PM

Subject: Re: One thing I don't like about Facebook ...

 

I know how you feel. Especially during the whole Mother's Day thing I see all

these pretty little quotes and pictures about moms and if your mom is the

greatest this and that, post on your wall. Heck no. Why lie about it? I can't

even stand seeing the Mother's Day cards in the stores. I want to barf. I'm

fortunate that my nada doesn't use a computer. She can hardly use her telephone

and TV remote. I should be thankful for that at least. Too bad there isn't a

happy nada's day. I'm not sure what I would do but it probably would get me into

trouble (like torching the mother's day card section). LOL

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> Aside from the fact that now nada has a Facebook account (that I set up for

her, knowing that she would use it to spy on me even more  ), is all the

" loving mother " messages I see friends posting. You know, the " I love you, Mom!

You're the greatest! You've always been such an example of true love to me. "

Blah, blah, blah ... 

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> And I really don't like myself for feeling that way. I mean, I am happy that

most of my friends had such great moms. I'm ecstatic that DH had such a

wonderful, loving mother. I just feel ... jealous. Yes, jealous. Jealous,

jealous, jealous! And I really don't like it! OK ... There was my two-year-old

tantrum for the day. 

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> One friend posted today about how this would've been her mom's 60-something

birthday, and how much she misses her. And it made me wonder: When nada is gone

(IF she doesn't outlive me out of spite since she was supposed to have been dead

before the age of 30), will I miss her? How will I feel? I don't think I will

miss her very much, and I imagine all I will feel is intense relief. But what

does that say about me as a person? I just feel really, really horrible. 

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