Guest guest Posted July 15, 2001 Report Share Posted July 15, 2001 I was just talking on the phone to Zehava, my 18 yr old daughter who's in college (well, seminary really) in Gateshead when Yeshaya came in and we had the big making up and apology scene which she could obviously hear down the phone. Afterwards when I took up the phone again, she said : " You know Mummy, you cope with things really well. " I said " Huh? " Thinking how I'd just about been ready to fall apart earlier and nothing had seemed a better idea than running away! She replied: " there are a couple of families here in " sem " (seminary) who have had family crises too, and they just haven't coped at all. " I felt SO much better hearing that! Wow. I thought I was lousy at coping. Ruthie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 16, 2001 Report Share Posted July 16, 2001 Certainly not lousy, Ruthie! I'm hoping to cope about half as well as you over the next 5 years - and this is only my first teenager, not my eighth!! Vicki Portman http://www.plushpants.co.uk > > I felt SO much better hearing that! Wow. I thought I was lousy at > coping. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 17, 2001 Report Share Posted July 17, 2001 >I was just talking on the phone to Zehava, my 18 yr old daughter who's >in college (well, seminary really) in Gateshead when Yeshaya came in >and we had the big making up and apology scene which she could >obviously hear down the phone. Afterwards when I took up the phone >again, she said : " You know Mummy, you cope with things really well. " > >I said " Huh? " Thinking how I'd just about been ready to fall apart >earlier and nothing had seemed a better idea than running away! > >She replied: " there are a couple of families here in " sem " (seminary) >who have had family crises too, and they just haven't coped at all. " > >I felt SO much better hearing that! Wow. I thought I was lousy at >coping. > >Ruthie I think those of us who talk through our problems do sometimes feel like that (it's admitting there's a problem to *be* coped after all) and some people who keep it to themselves assume in a rather superior way that they are coping when it leaks out in some kind of difficult behaviour. Which isn't to say that one way is necessarily better than the other. -- jennifer@... Vaudin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 17, 2001 Report Share Posted July 17, 2001 >I was just talking on the phone to Zehava, my 18 yr old daughter who's >in college (well, seminary really) in Gateshead when Yeshaya came in >and we had the big making up and apology scene which she could >obviously hear down the phone. Afterwards when I took up the phone >again, she said : " You know Mummy, you cope with things really well. " > >I said " Huh? " Thinking how I'd just about been ready to fall apart >earlier and nothing had seemed a better idea than running away! > >She replied: " there are a couple of families here in " sem " (seminary) >who have had family crises too, and they just haven't coped at all. " > >I felt SO much better hearing that! Wow. I thought I was lousy at >coping. > >Ruthie I think those of us who talk through our problems do sometimes feel like that (it's admitting there's a problem to *be* coped after all) and some people who keep it to themselves assume in a rather superior way that they are coping when it leaks out in some kind of difficult behaviour. Which isn't to say that one way is necessarily better than the other. -- jennifer@... Vaudin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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