{"id":205,"date":"2006-09-25T21:54:08","date_gmt":"2006-09-26T02:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/womantalk.wordpress.com\/2006\/09\/25\/whats-the-opposite-of-a-silver-lining\/"},"modified":"2006-09-25T21:54:08","modified_gmt":"2006-09-26T02:54:08","slug":"whats-the-opposite-of-a-silver-lining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=205","title":{"rendered":"what's the opposite of a silver lining?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am happy to be engaged, but my almost-thirteen year old is very unhappy that I am engaged. I hate you! I’m going to live with my dad! Why can’t you wait until I go to college to start your stupid new life?! <\/em>That, and endless sobbing and slammed doors.<\/p>\n

Tonight in the car, she screamed at the top of lungs that she hated me and was moving out,\u00c2\u00a0 and practically blew my eardrums out. I told her to stop, and as we pulled up to our house, I asked how much stuff she needed to take to live at her dad’s. She jumped out of the moving car<\/em> and ran off down the street. She came in only about a half hour later. Whew. That<\/em> was nerve-wracking.<\/p>\n

I know she needs time. I know that she and Chad actually get along and like eachother. But this is getting very, very stressful. I want her to be able to express her feelings, but not by screaming hurtful things to me.<\/p>\n

My sister just reminded me that thirteen was when she first came home shit-faced. Probably about the same time my brother crashed the family Mercury Marquis sedan (broke both<\/em> axles).\u00c2\u00a0 Point being, that normally my kid gives me very little trouble. In fact, she verges on being obsessively “good,” so I am trying to cut her some slack here. I am just not a patient person, and it is hard.<\/p>\n

Whoops, we were almost talking and about to watch some Gilmore Girls, but she discovered the pics of my ring on the camera, so back to the wailing and closed doors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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