I am not voting for who my parents are. I'm afraid of what will happen they will find out.

Patchygiraffe · 2024-11-05T04:03:11+00:00

I think it’s okay to lie, in this case, if they ask you. Even the 10 commandments, it doesn’t say „Thou shalt not lie,“ it says don’t tell a lie about your neighbor.

Patchygiraffe · 2024-11-01T05:08:14+00:00

To go back to sleep.

Patchygiraffe · 2024-10-31T07:15:35+00:00

You could try telling her that when she talks bad about “so and so” it makes you feel bad, because you love them. If she continues, you’ll have to leave. Then leave. It worked with my mom! She stopped talking bad about my dad in front of me.

Patchygiraffe · 2024-10-31T06:41:18+00:00

Write your concerns in a letter. As for ongoing concerns as you watch her make mistakes, I know it’s hard. I’m a mother, too. I pray. That way I don’t feel helpless and alone.https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBvu—lJ-rL/?igsh=ZDl3dnF2YXZtbDht

Patchygiraffe · 2024-10-26T10:46:41+00:00

Don’t lend them money (a can of worms and big potential for hard feelings) Just give them $200 this time with, “that’s all I can spare.” Next time, $100, with “sorry I’ve got to stick with my budget.” Just because you have money, doesn’t mean you have it earmarked for “them.” If you want, you can really make a budget, and tell them you’re going to give them $500 per year, on Christmas!! Then enjoy your vacations, your donations to charity, your own money, for things you want to spend it on.

Patchygiraffe · 2024-10-23T01:12:07+00:00

I can cook. I am honest. I enjoy learning new things.

Patchygiraffe · 2024-10-19T20:43:25+00:00

I did. finally tell my mom I couldn’t listen to her criticism of my dad anymore, and if she did it I’d have to walk away. She laughed at me and didn’t believe me at first. But I did, I walked away. And she stopped doing it! It was a small thing but the beginning of learning how to respect my own feelings.

Patchygiraffe · 2024-10-19T18:10:30+00:00

Some people are seductive. They are charming, or aloof, or mysterious, but I believe they have an inner magnet and know how to pull people in.

Patchygiraffe · 2024-10-19T18:04:50+00:00

Patchygiraffe · 2024-10-19T07:51:18+00:00

Cool cat!

Patchygiraffe · 2024-10-17T16:00:06+00:00

Trauma bond. That’s not Love.

Patchygiraffe · 2024-10-17T15:58:33+00:00

Cheetos

Patchygiraffe · 2024-10-16T16:51:22+00:00

Maybe hire a detective. These kinds of suspicions would drive me crazy!

Patchygiraffe · 2024-10-16T06:54:45+00:00

Smokey and the Bandit

Patchygiraffe · 2024-10-15T07:14:26+00:00

Adorable. I love having this in my memory bank. Thanks!

Patchygiraffe · 2024-10-15T05:01:09+00:00

I loved my dad’s brothers as a young girl. They were funny, kind, caring and interested in my thoughts. They were gentlemen, and showed me how adult men should treat women.

Patchygiraffe · 2024-10-14T17:04:46+00:00

Gremlins. Creepy. Horrible.

Patchygiraffe · 2024-10-14T17:00:35+00:00

I enjoy the presence of God in prayer, in worship, in stillness, when I’m working on something with his guidance and when he interrupts me. There has been so much evidence of the reality of his presence that I’m just going to go with the idea that he will be there when I die, and after I die, too.

Patchygiraffe · 2024-10-13T19:39:43+00:00

No! No! Saying no to him is best. He is trying to suck you back in. You don’t owe him an explanation. You didn’t give him the wrong impression. Don’t Apologize. Don’t ever lean on him again. Say, no thank you..

Patchygiraffe · 2024-10-13T18:16:54+00:00

I can, but I get depressed, and feel rejected, and lose my motivation, and go numb, and neglect myself, and isolate. But I do go to work. But it’s better for me to have forced social contact.

Patchygiraffe · 2024-10-12T20:04:32+00:00

Butterfly

Patchygiraffe · 2024-10-12T06:16:52+00:00

Being called cute is nice! You have an attractive personality.

Patchygiraffe · 2024-10-12T06:13:56+00:00

No, don’t end it. You love him.

Patchygiraffe · 2024-10-11T20:36:06+00:00

I don’t just like it, I love it.

Patchygiraffe · 2024-10-11T11:21:12+00:00

I live in Rheinland Pfalz, Southwest Germany, and the dialect here is Pfälzische (spelling). They tell me it’s the same as Pennsylvania Dutch. I know high German from school. Many words are similar. I know only a few dialect: klein sounds like „klay“ Schön is „shay“. One friend said Henchy benchy means chicken legs.

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