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My stepdaughter and her boyfriend are parents of 2 kids (ages 3 months and 2 years) and they live with us. I have always been generous about rearranging my work schedule (I work full time), by taking vacation days, leaving early and covering my hours later, to accommodate her to help. I took my 2 week vacation during the birth of her second child to look after the 2 year old and get the house ready for their return with the baby after her C-section. She recently got a part-time job, and when she and the father of her kids are working the same hours, she expects someone in the household to babysit. Her mother only takes one child at a time for weekly overnight visits. Her sister (who lives with us) works full-time and attends college at night. My husband and I both work full-time and sometimes have to work very long days, and weekends. We all love the kids, but NO ONE is able to care for a colicky 3 month old and an active 2 year old for 6-8+ hours at a time. However, my mother, who is retired, has offered to watch both kids, for any number of hours needed, for only $20 a day (for gas money to drive from her house to ours and back). But my step-daughter and her boyfriend claim that they cannot afford to pay anyone to watch both kids, somehow managing money for fast-food, expensive hair-care products, and video games for their X-Box. I can't lie and say I have other things to do when they live with us. I love my grandchildren, but I don't want to spend every free moment babysitting. I have always come through for them before, but at a price from neglecting my own physical health. I realize that I need to take better care of myself so that I can be around a long time for the grandchildren, but I'm tired of being the only one in the household that rearranges their schedule to "rescue" my step-daughter and her boyfriend every time they need a babysitter. Just because I'm not at work, doesn't mean I want to spend every evening babysitting. I feel guilty when I have to tell them no, but I feel I need some "me" time. My grandson and I have a very close bond and enjoy being together, but I sometimes need some alone time. So far, my supervisor has been good about the occassional rearranges in schedule, but I know it can't last forever.
How can I get some guilt-free "me"time without being selfish? Am I a mean and evil person for wanting to concentrate on me now and then?
Any advice would be appreciated.
I know the bible says if a man doesn't work he doesn't eat. I am a 26 yr old woman I work I have one child a girl. Never been married. I have been dating my boyfriend for 7 years and we have had some serious issues like he used to hit me in the first year I got a scar on my forehead from where he head butted me which has really shattered my self esteem but the scar has gotten smaller but It still bothers me allot. But anyway I moved out of state away from all my friends and family to completely commit myself to this man I have never cheated on him. He constantly accuses me of things I don't do I have been fighting for his trust for a long time. I basically go to work and rush home so he wont have anything negative to say he still does. Okay to the main thing. He hasn't had a job in three years I pay all the bills and car insurance everything and I don't know how I do it because I only make 8.24 an hour as a CNA. But now I just had to buy another car because he has wrecked four cars that I struggled to buy. So when I got my check this week I couldn't pay even one bill because I had to buy another car. Im depressed but he wont go look for job I have to pay 500.00 rent by the first that I know I don't have. phone lights cable I cant pay and hes just sitting on his fat butt. so when I was managing the bills I just asked him to help lighten the load by helping around the house you know clean it up some. he will not help me around the house at all until I have a breakdown then hell take out the trash that's its. My daughter is 4 and all i do is complain I cant even buy her winter clothes all she has is a coat that i could get her. I have gone without things that i need for so long that some how I have convinced myself that I don't need new underwear and clothes I'll just keep wearing my torn and tattered clothes until I win the lottery. I am not materialistic at all but my dad used to buy me whatever I wanted coming up my daughter asks me for things all the time and it hurts so bad knowing I cant get them for her because my whole paycheck goes to the bills and gas to get to work. I work while Im sick and when he gets mad he doesn't hit me anymore but he gets rough like up in my face and grabs me hard I recently injured my shoulder my fault he didn't do that but my shoulder had gotten better until we got in an argument and he grabbed me by shoulder several times and now it hurts again and i have to lift people at my job I cant take a vacation I cant be out of work or my child wont eat I am not on any kind of government assistance I will not cop out with that crap. I think I have been depressed for so long that's its normal to cry all the time not be interested in things i used to love like writing music and poetry I used to love myself now i hate myself. I want to take my child to the movies and chucky cheese and she asks but all i can tell her is that im broke. My dad tells me to come home but i want to be on my own and keep my family together he has helped me give her a decent christmas for the past two years but now because of the economic times he has to watch how he spends his money now because he works for a car company and his hours have been cut and I feel so sad I wish I could win the lottery and pay off his mortgage for him. sometimes I wish i could disappear give my daughter to some rich white couple so she could have the things that i had growing up bikes video games nice clothes not hand me down shoes and clothes that my co workers give me trying to help. I never turn down there help but my bf constantly bashes me for everything. I am doing all this to try to keep a Mother father and child together because I don't want to be just another black single parent household my parents divorced their parents divorced I want to break the chain but I am so unhappy and overworked and unappreciated what can I do I am so stupid.
Even on the 1 night a week he is here during school he plays until 10 or 10:30, He has little to no interaction with us and doesn't go out side to meet and play with neighborhood kids. If his father leaves the room he calls for him or comes to get him to continue playing or watching him play. I have tried to talk about the oddness of his behavior with my husband but my husband gets very defensive and hurt as if I am insulting him personally as a parent. He says I should join in to the gaming to become involved with his son but I have a parenting issues with the amount they play and the kind of games they play. I know my husband knows it is not kosher for a child to spend that much time with video games and the way he defends it makes me think he allows his son to do so, so that he doesn't has to "work" to entertain him and so that he get a break every other weekend of hanging out playing video games or being on the computer, I know when my daughter was six I rarely sat down,
Is this relationship between dad & daughter abnormal when Dad treats daugther better than everyone else in the family no matter what?
Is it okay for a divorced man to take his 15 yr old daughter to an expensive dinner every weekend especially when he is always complaining about his finances? My boyfriend has a daughter from his previous marriage and he says her mother doesn't treat her well. Basically the maternal mother is jealous of the daugther so he compensates for it. It seems to be a bit out of control to me though and I need help with this. He is constantly complaining about spending money but he will buy the most expensive everything for his daughter from shampoo, skin care products for her to the most expensive clothes, and then says he has no money to go to the movies or away with me on a weekend he doesn't have his kids. He can't take me out on a nice date without complaining about the expenses, and he can't buy his son a pair of socks, but everytime we stop at CVS the daughter leaves with an additional $25 worth of beauty products or hair accessories. His son cant get colonge but the daughter can have everything she wants. This started as soon as she got her priod. Honestly people, what 12 year old girl needs $20 razor blades or $30 shampoo? What 13 year old needs Juicy Couture, $150 Uggs, and coach bags? Does she have a job? He won't buy a video game for his son, but he takes the daughter out for an expensive steak dinner every weekend he has her because otherwise she will pout and throw a tantrum. She won't go to the movies with her dad and brother because it is embarassing for her friends to see her with her dad and brother and they have to go to another town when the dad wants to take the kids for a movie, but she feels okay going to an expensive dinner every weekend.
Anytime she throws a tantrum he lets her without any kind of punishment and anyone who points out the bad message this send out ends up getting punished instead. What little girl where thongs and gets their dad to buy them $50 push up bras? Have I lost my mind, or am I completely out of touch? I grew up with a mom and dad in the same home and a brother and none of this crap ever happened in my house! He acts as if his daugther is his partner and we all have to abide by her rules or pay the consequences. He boasts about her beauty, and popularity and how great she is, how she is happy all of the time - but he refuses to see she is happy because she manipulates him to get whatever she wants, and he follows, and then he ignores or blocks her mean acts towards others and her tantrums with him. He shares his personal life with her and what is going on in her brother's and he lets her decide what is best for her brother and they are only a year apart.
How do I get him to understand how this is desrtuctive not only to our relationship but also to the reltionships both his son and daugther will end up in as they grow older. He is basically teaching his daugther how to use men, and his son is conflicted as he sees his sister get everything while his father acts as if I am a rug.
I don't want to argue with him, but I guess I want to know if I have lost my mind. Should I jump ship and run for a life boat or what I can do to help him understand that this behavior is affecting our relationship and pushing me away. I am uncomfortable whenever she is sitting on him and sprawling on him, as well as when he yells at everyone else (his son, and myself) for trouble she causes. I mean honestly, I am beginning to think that this stuff about her mother is completely made up and the maternal mother is not really even jeaalous at all, but just disciplined and fed out with her daugther's manipulation!
Sorry this is so long but I need help.
In a nut shell I had to volunteer my car to be taken back by the company and all my credit cards have defaulted. The reason this all occurred long story short my ex-husband took are daughter back to his country. He will not give her back to me and EVEN THOUGH she is an AMERICAN citizen the USA will do nothing for me, since the country is not under the Hague convention. She is in an Arab country and under Islamic law, when she is in that country she is considered a citizen of that country, due to it being a piece of shit country that is male dominated, she can leave the country until she is 16. So therefore I am out of the United states 6 months out of the year and overseas 6 months out of the year so I can be with her. I have no way to pay off my credit, because all of the money I make here goes to support her. Since her father is a dead beat who thinks every job is below him he will not work, so basically if I do not support him and pay his rent, power and electricity my child will be out in the streets. Luckily I have a job that allows me to return every six months. So I was wondering if it really will go away after 7 years, since I am only in the USA half the year I really cannot pay off my debt. One creditor actually told me I should not go back over seas to see my child so I can re pay my debt. I was shocked he said that, I mean I literally had to watch my daughter crawl for the first time, walk for the first time and hear her talk for the first time and watch her first birthday over photobucket videos I guess some people think that international child abduction is a joke like the creditor.
So basically I want to know if my bad credit will clear after seven years since I have no way to pay it.
Thank you every one for your answers.
I was afraid to post it because most people are really mean when people ask questions like this. Every one has been very helpful, thank you :)
Is okay for a divorced man to take his 15 yr old daughter to an expensive steak dinner every weekend especially when he is always complaining about his finances? My boyfriend has a daughter from his previous marriage and he says her mother doesn't treat her well. Basically the maternal mother is jealous of the daugther so he compensates for it. It seems to be a bit out of control to me though and I need help with this. He is constantly complaining about spending money but he will buy the most expensive razors, shampoo, skin care products for her and the most expensive clothes, and then say he has no money to go to the movies or away with me on a weekend he doesn't have the kids.This started as soon as she got her priod. Honestly people, what 12 year old girl needs $20 razor blades or $30 shampoo? What 13 year old needs Juicy Couture glasses and coach bags? Does she have a job? He won't buy a video game for his son, but he takes the daughter out for a steak dinner every weekend he has her because otherwise she will pout and throw a tantrum. Anytime she throws a tantrum he lets her without any kind of punishment and anyone who points out the bad message this send out ends up getting punished instead. What little girl where thongs and gets their dad to buy them $50 push up bras? Have I lost my mind, or am I completely out of touch? I grew up with a mom and dad in the same home and a brother and none of this crap ever happened in my house! He acts as if his daugther is his partner and we all have to abide by her rules or pay the consequences. He boasts about her beauty, and popularity and how great she is, how she is happy all of the time - but he refuses to see she is happy because she manipulates him to get whatever she wants, and he follows, and then he ignores or blocks her mean acts towards others and her tantrums with him. How do I get him to understand how this is desrtuctive not only to our relationship but also to the reltionships both his son and daugther will end up in as they grow older. He is basically teaching his daugther how to use men, and his son is conflicted as he sees his sister get everything while his father acts as if I am a rug.
I don't want to argue with him, but I guess I want to know if I have lost my mind. Should I jump ship and run for a life boat or what I can do to help him understand that this behavior is affecting our relationship and pushing me away. I am uncomfortable whenever she is sitting on him and sprawling on him, as well as when he yells at everyone else (his son, and myself) for trouble she causes. I mean honestly, I am beginning to think that this stuff about her mother is completely made up and the maternal mother is not really even jeaalous at all, but just disciplined and fed out with her daugther's manipulation!
a couple years ago there was this show on tv (well not really a show ) but it was more like a special on fox or UPN9 when it was that . anyways it was about a family like in the country side or something and they were and they heard a crash and lights so the son and the father went out to see and they see a alien cutting into a cow with a laser and as there watching the alein looks up at them a shoots the laser at them . they begin to run back to the house and as they get inside , i think the sont gets hit .. but they start hearing foot steps up stairs and this ball of light comes out of nowhere an hits the daughter so the son or father gos out side and looks up at the window and you see the back of the alien going in the window ...... they made it seem as if the whole family disappeared and only the tape was left does any one remember that ??? i need to kno im not the only one that remembers it
does anyone remember the name of the special.. i really want to watch it again
i am making a video for my daughters 30th bday party. It will include pictures of her from baby thru present, her father and grandparents who have passed away, school friends, new friends, family,old boyfriends and the boyfriend who stuck, etc. I don't want just instumental, I need songs with lyrics.
this is only the first chapter. let me know what u think
Nineteen-year-old Violet Miquidum was busy typing on her two year old baby blue laptop while humming. She wasn't typing a paper for college, it was summer and Violet wasn't in college yet. She had always dreamed of going to Athena University in Colombia, Missouri. Violet loved singing and was the best in the high school choir. Once, she took one of her many compositions to her teacher, Mr. Pertear. Now Violet was one year out of high school. Violet had gotten a choir scholarship to Athena University and applied as soon as she could. The only thing standing in the way of Violet going was her mother, Molly Mecole. Molly had never gone to college and held a full-time job as the manager of Target. Violet worked full-time as a cashier at Target to earn money to cover whatever funds her father and the scholarship didn't cover.
"Violet! Get down here right now!" Molly angrily shouted. Violet quicky closed out of her program, shut down the laptop and shoved it in its aqua messanger bag. Robert had mailed the bag to Violet for her twentieth birthday from Switzerland, where he was working on a new movie. Robert worked as a director for . After speeding down the spiral staircase that connected her attic room to the rest of the house, Violet got the usual welcome. Shortly before thier separation, Robert had the staircase build so Violet didn't have to climb a ladder to get to her room. Molly had said it was a waste of money, but Robert had the staircase built anyway. That drove Molly to the edge. Violet, who was nine at the time, would never forget that night. Molly was fighting with Robert, who as she claims, 'spoiled Violet beyond control.' Violet never took anything for granted and alway thanked Robert for what he got her. It was true that Robert spoiled Violet, but it was becouse one day, Robert left one of his many video cameras running and nobody knew. The video camera caught a normal day of Molly treating Violet like a servant. When he saw what was on the tape, Robert confronted Molly and she claimed that she was preparing Violet for the real world. Violet and Robert knew Molly cared nothing about Violet in the real world. That was the night Robert had left. He promised he would visit every month, but because of his job, he rarly could. Whenever Robert didn't show, Molly told Violet that he didn't care and loved making her miserable. Violet knew it wan't true, but there was no point in arguing with Molly.
"Make yourself useful and make dinner." Molly snapped.
Violet made dinner and was happier than usual because she was going to Athena University the next morning.
The next morning, Violet awoke with a strange feeling. As soon as she got out of bed, she checked everywhere except her closet. She flung open the doors and gasped. There, in her closet, stood a grinning Robert Miquidum. He stepped out and gave his daughter the bear hug she still missed.
can u give me a review site? all answers welcome. thx in advance.
can u also stay away from "i liked it" u can say that, but include how i can make it better.
this is only part of the first chapter.
i know it says "Robert mailed it to her for her twentieth birthday" and in the beginning, i said she was 19. she started out as 20 and then i changed it to 19.
Here's y choices for the wedding songs:
1.) Jessica Andrews - I Will Be There For You
2.) Kelly Clarkson - Before Your Love
3.) Leona Lewis - I Will Be
4.) Love of My Life - The Wedding Song
5.) Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson - A Whole New World
Here's the choices for the Father/Daughter Songs:
1.) Always Daddy (Official Music Video)
2.) Tim McGraw-My Little Girl
If you don't know the songs type them in on YouTube & you can listen to them there. =]
And please only pic from from this list, because these some of my favorite songs, but I just don't know which one's to choose.
My mother had called me at work and told me about a video her co worker had showed about soldiers in formation and a little girl that would not let go of her fathers hand so they let her stay with him it was right before a deployment I want to see it but I cant find it and my mom cant remember where it came from does anyone know what it is?
My ex, father of my daughter, entered my home, which he has always been given access to, but on these occasions did it without my knowledge with the intent to stage my house as a mess and video tape and record it. He is now trying to use this against me in Court to gain custody of our daughter. Would this constitute harrassment or any other type of crime against me?
can someone please explain what is happening in the "what hurts the most" music video by Rascal Flatts? I think I understand it but am not sure. does the father make the daughters boyfriend leave and then he gets in an accident and dies so the girlfriend blames her father?
I have a 5 1/2 yr old daughter who started kdg this year. She did go to preschool last yr 3 days per week and loved it only cried on day 1. This year has been a rough start we ran from the bus in the first week and have woke up crying I don't want to go etc. Now we are having trouble with issues at home. She is finally walking on the bus by herself sometimes with tears but at least going on without my picking her up and putting her on.I spoke with her teacher she is doing fine these last few weeks once she is in the classroom the crying stops. However at home she is not being nice to myself or her father. She has also been saying "I don't care if you are late" to my niece who was walking her to class. She is back talking, misbehaving and being quite hateful.She is screaming for me to come to her room during the night instead of getting up herself she yells 3 rooms and has woken her sister. In the beginning of school I tried giving her rewards, sticker chart, taking something of mine etc in the beginning with the bus problem but now we are having just the home issues. I tried time outs, taking away privileges however she does not play video games, or watch a lot of tv. So now the punishments are going to your room to spend the evening and remaining there.
I did have another child June 2 so she has a 4 month old sister that she has been fine with. There were a few issues the first few weeks with my nursing and jealousy but since then nothing. I have been home all summer on maternity leave and have returned to work working only weekend nights.
I need to know how to discipline and get her back on track to the "nice, cooperative daughter" I had before school started. Is this just a phase or do we have a larger problem here?
We found out 2 days ago for sure that we are having a Baby Girl!
I'm thrilled and honestly at that point was hoping for a girl. (After hoping for a boy forever)
At 16 weeks they thought she was a girl but wasn't sure, so over the last few weeks I got attached to the idea of having a girl and 2 days ago we found out for sure.
As excited as I am to be having a little girl, I've never really known what to do with a girl. I've always been awkward with little girls. (I have 3 little sisters. (One is 8 years younger than me, 10 years younger than me, and 14 years younger than me....and most of my cousins are about that much younger than me.)
So I've been around little girls. I've never been into girly stuff like dolls and make up and dresses. I've always been more outdoorsey (four wheelers, riding horses) i've always loved animals. I liked video games. I used to like to visit my cousin who was a boy because he had the cooler toys.
I'm not big on just because you are a girl you should have to play with dolls, I feel you can play with action figures if you want. (That makes my husband happy)
Again I've just never been great with girls (I had a terrible relationship with my mother)
I'm scared that we will have a strained relationships as my mother and I did.
(You know what the say Mothers and sons get on well and fathers and daughters do)
Will it just come naturally?
I'm excited but at the same time I'm starting to have that worry, what if I'm not good at this. what if she hates me
you know
Hey my father has never been around for my life and will not be at my wedding. I do not have an older brother or step father or really close grandparent or uncle. I have a younger brother and my mom raised me alone.
What are some ideas on how to handle this? I know my fiance will be doing a mother-son dance. I don't know who will walk me down the aisle, and I certainly don't feel right going alone. It's sort of emotional for me because I just went to a good friend's wedding and watching her dance with her proud father really made me happy for her but sad for myself. They danced to 'My little Girl" by Tim McGraw. Very sweet.
I guess I might do a brother-sister dance and I have heard of mother-daughter dances, but would it seem weird? I'd like to see a video or picture of people doing these things but I can't find anything... Also what are some good songs? Thanks for help I know I can't be the only person who has this situation.
ok, so this movie starts out with a family driving down a highway and they decide to take a short cut, they end up finding themselves in a deserted town and they get out of their car to ask for directions they end up finding no one go back to the car and won't start up, the daughter finds a video camera with a video of a previous family who was terrorized in this town, later she goes down a well and finds a bunch of dolls, flashlights, toys, etc. The father goes to look for their car and finds it in a huge landfill with hundreds of other cars all with broken/popped tires and bateries taken out. I can't remember exactly what the name of this movie, it used to always come on TBS superstation a few years back. Anyone who can tell me this answer would be a huge help!
thank you in advance.
The commissioner of New Jersey's Department of Education ordered a review on Friday following the posting of a YouTube video depicting school children singing the praises of President Obama.
In a statement to FOXNews.com, Education Department spokeswoman Beth Auerswald said Commissioner Lucille Davy has directed the school's superintendent to review the matter. Auerswald said Davy wants to ensure that students can celebrate Black History Month without "inappropriate partisan politics in the classroom."
"In addition, it is our understanding the teacher in question retired at the end of the last school year," the statement continued.
Auerswald declined to indicate exactly what the review would entail or possible ramifications.
As critics of the video claimed it amounted to "indoctrination," the tension at B. Bernice Young Elementary School escalated to such a degree Thursday that the school was placed temporarily on lockdown after its principal received death threats over a YouTube video that showed nearly 20 children being taught songs lauding the president, though back-to-school night events continuing as planned Thursday night at the school.
Video of the students at the Burlington, N.J., school shows them singing songs seemingly overflowing with campaign slogans and praise for "Barack Hussein Obama," repeatedly chanting the president's name and celebrating his accomplishments, including his "great plans" to "make this country's economy No. 1 again."
One song that the children were taught quotes directly from the spiritual "Jesus Loves the Little Children," though Jesus' name is replaced with Obama's: "He said red, yellow, black or white/All are equal in his sight. Barack Hussein Obama."
The video has set off some families in Burlington, who said they were horrified that their children at the being "indoctrinated" to view the president like a cult figure.
"I'm stunned -- I can't believe it's our school," said Jim Pronchik, who told FOXNews.com his 8-year-old son Jimmy was one of the 18 students in the video. "We don't want to praise this guy like he's a god or an idol or a king or anything like that. That's the wrong message to be sending."
Click here to see the full lyrics to both songs.
Pronchik said he and his wife were never informed about the lesson, which the superintendent of Burlington Township schools says was held in February as part of Black History Month "to honor the contributions of African Americans to our country."
But Andrea Ciemnolonski, the parent of another one of the students in the video, said the song was part of a second-grade project on a variety of topics related to the month of February, such as Groundhog Day, Valentine's Day and Presidents Day.
"They did songs about President Washington, Lincoln, and they did do one about President Obama," Ciemnolonski said. "My daughter was in the class that did the songs about Obama. It was black history month. ... It was something for the kids to celebrate."
Ciemnolonski said she "just can't look at it as indoctrination," though she added, "The comparisons made were a little exuberant."
Superintendent Christopher Manno said in a written statement Thursday that the taping itself was out of order, but failed to address whether the lesson was approved. "The recording and distribution of the class activity were unauthorized," he wrote in a note to parents and the media.
Other families arriving at Bernice Young Elementary to pick up their children said they were outraged at the songs, which also tout a fair-pay bill Obama signed in January: "He said we must be clear today/Equal work means equal pay."
"I felt this was reminiscent of 1930s Germany, and the indoctrination of children to worship their leader," said Robert Bowen, father of two children at Bernice Young Elementary.
"I thought that if this was a civics class in say high school or upper level middle school, in might be appropriate to discuss policies or politics, but as far as children in first grade, second grade -- those types of levels -- it's inappropriate to discuss how a president is changing the world after only six weeks in office."
Parents said the songs were performed in Elvira James' second grade class. James, who refused to comment to FOXNews.com, retired at the end of the previous school year on a full pension in New Jersey.
Bowen said he thought there should be consequences for having provided such a one-sided lesson to impressionable students there.
"It's something that there should be serious repercussions for ... the administration here, and I think the school board needs to be answerable to the parents of the community," said Bowen. School board members did not respond to requests for comment.
Though the school was not planning to address the tape during back-to-school-night events, many parents were heading in with with a lot of questions about the tape.
"This video is disturbing," said a grandparent name
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i'm dating a guy almost 30 years older than me and im so attracted to him. it has nothing to do with any "daddy issues" although i did have a crush on my dad when i was little... i never acted on it though.... it was just a fantasy. i love my bf. he makes me feel so safe and warm and protected and loved. its a nice feeling. he lets me cuddle up on his lap and go to sleep. he calls me his princess and his kitten.. he does all these silly things to make me laugh. he takes care of me.. a few days ago we were at the park feeding the ducks and he piggybacked me on the way home. it reminded me of when i was a kid and carefree.... our relationship is more like a father/daughter than a bf/gf but it does have romantic elements to it too.. we kiss and make out and do other things too. its not perverted. i truly feel so happy and safe when im with him. he lets me be the real me... he doesn't think its weird that a 22 yr old woman likes to watch cartoons, color in, go to the toy store, play video games, actually he does all these things with me. we've been together for 2 years and i know if he asked me to marry him... i would.... on the outside to the real world.. we're just a normal couple.. when its just us.. the father/daugther dynamic is there.... do you think this is bad for me? im not maturing as a person. i dont have a college degree, i dont know how to drive.... oh.. and i have borderline personality disorder.
the 23rd their putting my house on the court steps all because Bank of Un-American tricked me when they said they were modifying my home and I have a disabled son that has been abused in 8 different nursing homes, the state has done nothing to help and now me and my disabled son will have to probably file bankruptcy, my son was hit by a vehicle while changing a tire on the freeway here in kansas city mo, he was hit so hard it knocked his leg completely behind him and split his head open in several places, in the nursing holes, he got bed sores many times 150pneumonia's, broke his arm ,cut the nerves in his arms now he cant lift them ever again, 2 cases ecol bacteria, laid with scabies for almost 2 years, stuck catheterr so far up my son that it toreurethraa in 4 places, yet Governor Jay Nixon has ignored my pleas, my son has had no doctor in over 21/2 yrs because no one will come to the house, Jim Jr averaged once a month while in the nursing holes, in the hospital for urinary tract infections,pneumonia'ss, had to cut off half his heal from letting him lay without rotating him. so I had enough I bring him home, and the state threatens me and says if he dies in my care they will sue me, but it's okay for the state to allow abuse in the nursing holes and cover it all up like it never happened, the governor has it down pat, your loved ones life is only worth 250,000.00 even if they abuse mame kill your loved one the max is $250,000.00. lawyers won't take the case because the no money by the time you dodepositionss, with doctors at 90.00 an hour and witness, then split whats left with client, it's not worth it. So my son gets abused in more ways then any one person should ever have to go through, so I bring him home only to find the state offers my son no help so I can work this stat has caused me to go over 200,000.00 in debt in just the 2 1/2 years since bring Jim home, Doesn't anybody care is this what this country has stooped to? I've also sacrificed the last 11 yrs of my life to take care of my son with absolutely no help from the state, no nurses, no doctors, doctors that write prescriptions like potassium, and flourisimide, acetylisistine, and more without ever seeing the patient, this state allows it. What would you do if this happened to you 17 year old son or daughter, open can at the site yet the police don't even check the ford motor companyemployeee for alcohol in is system nor did they even write him a ticket for hitting my son while he was changing his tire, you tell me what do you think of a Governor who ignores your pleas, or a police dept that doesn't even do it's job or all the multiple nursing holes the abuse and kill your loved ones regularly, maybe you just put your old father or mother in those places so you don't have to bother with it, let it be on yourconsciouss, I'm putting a video about real encounters of what else this cover up state has done if anybody has any backbone or are just curious, respond, to the rest who don't care, it will effect you or a loved one someday, there's practically no way around it,
My ex won't pay his child support. I have filed with the state, I am owed moneies but have stopped recieving any. When the state is tough on him , he complies, but for now they have backed off and he has stopped paying. How can I put the pressure on the state to do somthing that gets his attention, or somthing I can do myself. For the last 6 months he has not accepted or returned my calls.Today, he and my daughter spoke for the first time in the last 6 months a moment ago when she called his girlfriend to say hello. My ex told my daughter he will not accept my calls because he claims he is mad at me because I removed my daughter from his care . I removed my daughter when he failed to be a responsible father (he chose to sell drugs instead of working and when his house got shot up, I removed my daughter, in which I have video for proof this occured. How can I get my ex to just pay his child support and gain sole custoy so that my daughter is never subjected to that type of situation or environment again.
On Friday May 1st me and my daughter and my daughters godfather went to my nephews birthday party. When we arrived at the birthday party Destiny wanted to play with her cousin Jacob. Jacob didn't seem too interested in playing with Destiny if anything he seemed annoyed and bothered by her. After a little while the kids went downstairs to play video games. Danny (Destinys godfather) went downstairs with them. After about 20 minutes I heard my daughter screaming and crying. Me and my sister Michelle Gerdes went downstairs to see why Destiny was crying. Danny informed me she was crying because she did not get a turn to play video games. The mother did not want her son to play the video game because it was too scary. The kids were fighting over the game controller and Destiny was getting upset that she didn't get to play the scary video game. Destiny then threw a temper tantrum I told her that she needed to go upstairs and sit on the couch for a time out. As we walked upstairs my sister was in the front of my daughter my daughter was behind her and I was behind my daughter. When we got upstairs I then retold Destiny that she needed a time out and she had to sit on the couch. My mother told me not to put her on a time out because this was a party. My daughter was still throwing a temper tantrum and I told my mother to mind her f ing business. My stepfather got mad at me and told me don't talk to your mother like that. I then told my stepfather that we were leaving because it was obvious that Jacob did not want to play with Destiny and we did not feel welcome. I then grabbed the toys r us bag of presents that I bought my nephew and started to head toward the front door to leave the house. She then slammed the door shut blocking me from leaving the house. She refused to let us leave. My sister then grabbed the toys r us bag out of my hand. I then grabbed the bag back and she started to bite my hand. I managed to get my hand out of her mouth and tried again to leave. She then lunged at me and jumped on to my back from behind making it very difficult for me to leave. She told me you are not leaving. I told her get off of me let me go I tried moving my body side to side to get her off of my back. My step father then lunged at me and we all fell to the ground on top of Destiny and my sister hitting her head on the dining room table as she went down. My step father had me in a head lock pushing my face to the ground cutting my air supply off. I could not breathe I thought I was going to die. I then looked up at my mother and told her I can't breathe he's hurting me. After a long minute and a half he let me go. I then tried to leave the house once again grabbing Destinys hand my sister then tried pulling Destinys hand away from me. My sister pulled Destiny so hard she came out of one of her shoes. I then tried pulling my daughters hand again to leave the house. My sister then grabbed one of my daughters pigtails she pulled so hard that my daughters hair scrunchee came out of her hair and that upset my daughter so much. Once we got outside it was raining and wet out. Destiny had only one shoe on at this time Danny was still stuck in the house. Then my sister yelled in Dannys face you better not leave me here with this mess. I then reached for my phone and dialed 911 at this time I was light headed, dizzy and disoriented when I was on the phone with 911. I was so weakened by this unfortunate event that we thought it was best to drive off and go home and not wait for 911. The reason why we decided to leave was because my daughter was terrified and scared of her grandpa. She told me grandpa was bad for hurting Daddy and that it wasn't nice and she was sad because she felt like she ruined the birthday party. We arrived home around 8:30pm and went to bed at 9:30pm. We were woken up at 1:30am by CPS and a police officer at our door. They told us they needed to see Destiny. They saw Destiny and told me to take off her clothes but leave her underwears on. They also asked Destiny a bunch of questions. The caseworker told me there was a report filed against me saying that I hit my daughters head with the door repeatedly it was clearly obvious that Destiny was not abused in any way she had no marks on her. I even pulled down her underwears and showed them her backside. This has been very stressful on me and my family. I've been in so much pain physically and emotionally. Early that morning I had to take Destiny to a doctors appointment for a booster shot. After my daughters doctors appointment we went to the hospital because I've been in such pain in my back and neck after what my stepfather did to me. We were in the hospital for 6 hours. When we got out of the hospital I called my house to check the answering machine there was a message from the suffolk county police department asking me to call them back. When I called them they told me my sister filed a police report against me and there was a warrant out for my arrest. I was to
Their father has barely been in the picture. He comes by once a year to visit Trent (who is 12) on his birthday to take him to the hunting range and to buy him a new gun. Last week, he was found guilty of three counts of murder in the second degree and one in the first. I know that it was not his fault- in my heart and soul. I have no idea what to tell my children, and
they are already super violent and angry.
My oldest son, Trent, is 12 years old and hates me. He brings girls up to his room, throws used condoms in my face, and stays up late with his friends-who are bad influences. His younger brother (Zariah Add-9 years old) is following right into his footsteps! He spits on me if he does not get what he wants, punches his sister in the face (he gave her a black eye once. I had to say that I did it after getting drunk in order to avoid looking like a bad mother), and is repeating the first grade for the third time in a row. I have no idea what to do with him. I tried hiring a local girl to tutor him, but he ended up "feeling her up," and she threatened to sue me. I had to buy her and her friends booze in order to shut her up.
My only daughter, Avaereigh, who is four years old, already has quite a colorful vocabulary. She's been sent home several times for disrespecting the teacher and getting into fights. She does not respect me, her teachers, or God. I keep trying to tell her that if she doesn't obey me like it says she HAS to in the bible, but she just ignores me and gets into fights with Trent.
My three month old baby (they all have the same father, so don't call me a sl*t) is fantastic and beautiful, but all of my other children hate her. My son refuses to baby sit her. I asked Trent to just spend an hour watching her while I went to do the laundry in the apartment, and he walked out five minutes after I left! I came home, got the baby, drove out looking for him, and found him at the video arcade with three other guys!
When my tweleve year old was nine, he came up behind me and cut all of my hair off. I was on the computer, so I didn't see him coming. After I yelled at him to stop, he put a knife to my throat and told me to buy him ice cream or he would kill me.
This week, Trent decided to hit me in the shin with a baseball bat because I decided to take away his gun collection. Yesterday, my other son decided to stab me in the stomach as I was sleeping. He used a small kitchen knife, so there was not too much damage, but he refused to apologize or come with me to the hospital. My four year old daughter got kicked out of Sunday school for flashing a teacher. The teacher said that she screamed "GIRLS GONE WILD" when she did it. I was so embarrassed that I honestly don't think that I will ever return to that church ever again.
Earlier today, my daughter decided to steal Trent's gun and shoot the cat while I was preparing brunch. I had to lie and say that I shot that cat after a long night of drinking!
What can I do to get my children under control? How can I stop hem from spitting on me and punching me? Should I try to find a new daddy for them? By the way, their father's arrest was on the news, so I can't hide it from them.
Their father has barely been in the picture. He comes by once a year to visit Trent (who is 12) on his birthday to take him to the hunting range and to buy him a new gun. Last week, he was found guilty of three counts of murder in the second degree and one in the first. I know that it was not his fault- in my heart and soul. I have no idea what to tell my children, and
they are already super violent and angry.
My oldest son, Trent, is 12 years old and hates me. He brings girls up to his room, throws used condoms in my face, and stays up late with his friends-who are bad influences. His younger brother (Zariah Add-9 years old) is following right into his footsteps! He spits on me if he does not get what he wants, punches his sister in the face (he gave her a black eye once. I had to say that I did it after getting drunk in order to avoid looking like a bad mother), and is repeating the first grade for the third time in a row. I have no idea what to do with him. I tried hiring a local girl to tutor him, but he ended up "feeling her up," and she threatened to sue me. I had to buy her and her friends booze in order to shut her up.
My only daughter, Avaereigh, who is four years old, already has quite a colorful vocabulary. She's been sent home several times for disrespecting the teacher and getting into fights. She does not respect me, her teachers, or God. I keep trying to tell her that if she doesn't obey me like it says she HAS to in the bible, but she just ignores me and gets into fights with Trent.
My three month old baby (they all have the same father, so don't call me a sl*t) is fantastic and beautiful, but all of my other children hate her. My son refuses to baby sit her. I asked Trent to just spend an hour watching her while I went to do the laundry in the apartment, and he walked out five minutes after I left! I came home, got the baby, drove out looking for him, and found him at the video arcade with three other guys!
When my tweleve year old was nine, he came up behind me and cut all of my hair off. I was on the computer, so I didn't see him coming. After I yelled at him to stop, he put a knife to my throat and told me to buy him ice cream or he would kill me.
This week, Trent decided to hit me in the shin with a baseball bat because I decided to take away his gun collection. Yesterday, my other son decided to stab me in the stomach as I was sleeping. He used a small kitchen knife, so there was not too much damage, but he refused to apologize or come with me to the hospital. My four year old daughter got kicked out of Sunday school for flashing a teacher. The teacher said that she screamed "GIRLS GONE WILD" when she did it. I was so embarrassed that I honestly don't think that I will ever return to that church ever again.
Earlier today, my daughter decided to steal Trent's gun and shoot the cat while I was preparing brunch. I had to lie and say that I shot that cat after a long night of drinking!
What can I do to get my children under control? How can I stop hem from spitting on me and punching me? Should I try to find a new daddy for them? By the way, their father's arrest was on the news, so I can't hide it from them.
I feel that it's overhand, on yahoo, I saw a video about a father who catches a foul ball, he gives it to his daughter (who is like 3 years old.)
And she throws it in to the next section,And she throws it overhand, what do you guys think?
I live in Pennsylvania and I am a mother of a two year old little girl. A few weeks ago upon getting her back, she had nearly third degree burns on her finger from her messing with something extremely hot while her father was on a completely different floor in the house. She also comes back with other random welts on her. I've also monitored his parenting with her, and she literally runs around the house without his supervision, putting it on other household members to watch her, and even unsupervised in general, so he can play his video games, He also doesn't give her balanced meals, instead just gives her junk food all day long and doesn't get her to bed until close to midnight. He also had a history with getting violent with me. Would this be enough grounds to get full custody of my daughter? Please, I am a desperate mom in desperate need to try to make my little girl's life better.
Their father has barely been in the picture. He comes by once a year to visit Trent (who is 12) on his birthday to take him to the hunting range and to buy him a new gun. Last week, he was found guilty of three counts of murder in the second degree and one in the first. I know that it was not his fault- in my heart and soul. I have no idea what to tell my children, and
they are already super violent and angry.
My oldest son, Trent, is 12 years old and hates me. He brings girls up to his room, throws used condoms in my face, and stays up late with his friends-who are bad influences. His younger brother (Zariah Add-9 years old) is following right into his footsteps! He spits on me if he does not get what he wants, punches his sister in the face (he gave her a black eye once. I had to say that I did it after getting drunk in order to avoid looking like a bad mother), and is repeating the first grade for the third time in a row. I have no idea what to do with him. I tried hiring a local girl to tutor him, but he ended up "feeling her up," and she threatened to sue me. I had to buy her and her friends booze in order to shut her up.
My only daughter, Avaereigh, who is four years old, already has quite a colorful vocabulary. She's been sent home several times for disrespecting the teacher and getting into fights. She does not respect me, her teachers, or God. I keep trying to tell her that if she doesn't obey me like it says she HAS to in the bible, but she just ignores me and gets into fights with Trent.
My three month old baby (they all have the same father, so don't call me a sl*t) is fantastic and beautiful, but all of my other children hate her. My son refuses to baby sit her. I asked Trent to just spend an hour watching her while I went to do the laundry in the apartment, and he walked out five minutes after I left! I came home, got the baby, drove out looking for him, and found him at the video arcade with three other guys!
When my tweleve year old was nine, he came up behind me and cut all of my hair off. I was on the computer, so I didn't see him coming. After I yelled at him to stop, he put a knife to my throat and told me to buy him ice cream or he would kill me.
This week, Trent decided to hit me in the shin with a baseball bat because I decided to take away his gun collection. Yesterday, my other son decided to stab me in the stomach as I was sleeping. He used a small kitchen knife, so there was not too much damage, but he refused to apologize or come with me to the hospital. My four year old daughter got kicked out of Sunday school for flashing a teacher. The teacher said that she screamed "GIRLS GONE WILD" when she did it. I was so embarrassed that I honestly don't think that I will ever return to that church ever again.
Earlier today, my daughter decided to steal Trent's gun and shoot the cat while I was preparing brunch. I had to lie and say that I shot that cat after a long night of drinking!
What can I do to get my children under control? How can I stop hem from spitting on me and punching me? Should I try to find a new daddy for them? By the way, their father's arrest
My daughter is 3 months old and is pretty heavy in her carseat. I asked her father to help me load her into the car 2 nights ago and he refused, so I struggled to carry her along with several bags. I couldnt shut the door behind me due to all the luggage, so he got upset and threw a glass bottle at me, it shattered on the ground and could have injured my baby or myself. He was also cursing me out saying 'get the F#$%' out of here B&^%#' as I was leaving. I did NOTHING to provoke this behavior. He was upset because he was playing video games.
Two days later, I feel so disrespected and hurt he would do such a horrible thing. As if the verbal abuse was enough, he topped it off with throwing a glass bottle at my back. Is it too late to report this to the police? I am afraid now.
Also, he is a State Legistator and represents a large area of New York City, a well respected guy in society. This would end up in every paper. I didnt want to ruin his career behind this, but he is abusive. A few years ago he gave me a black eye and I didnt run.
My daughter is 3 months old and is pretty heavy in her carseat. I asked her father to help me load her into the car 2 nights ago and he refused, so I struggled to carry her along with several bags. I couldnt shut the door behind me due to all the luggage, so he got upset and threw a glass bottle at me, it shattered on the ground and could have injured my baby or myself. He was also cursing me out saying 'get the F#$%' out of here B&^%#' as I was leaving. I did NOTHING to provoke this behavior. He was upset because he was playing video games.
Two days later, I feel so disrespected and hurt he would do such a horrible thing. As if the verbal abuse was enough, he topped it off with throwing a glass bottle at my back. Is it too late to report this to the police? I am afraid now.
Ok - Im a 27/f. He's a 26/M Ive been in a relationship for the last 5 years. We have a beautiful daughter together. The problem is....im not happy. I don't think this guy has any intention of marrying me. We have a lot of ups and downs.
He works making 10 bucks an hour and it seems to me that he should want to go out there and try to find a job that will pay him more. Like fed ex and his response was..."you want me to work hard labor? I don't wanna do that!" He drives a POS car that is about to break down. His parents help us w/ money....a lot! Rent, bills, etc...
His life is all about basketball watching,playing, video games. Don't get me wrong. He is a very nice guy but I'm wondering what my future is gonna be like and it's scary for me b/c of my child.
After I had my lil girl, 19 mo ago. I went straight to school and now I am working in the medical field. I want to continue and better myself but it is very hard to get motivated. What should I do? Is there a future w/ this guy?
He's nice but very selfish at the same time. Hardly helps around the house...laundry, dishes....etc... Im tired and I feel myself going down hill. Should I go or should I stay? Guys!??! Is this a typical male thing or should he want a better future and want to try harder for our family? I just don't know anymore.
He's a good father..... but he hardly goes to the store to get diapers, food, etc...I do all this alone. I feel so alone:( Let me know what you think
i can't remember the name of the group or song....i really can't remember any of the lyrics, the only lyrics that come to mind are..i dn't really care what your daddy say i'm gonna love you anyway...and the father in the video is played by a comedien,and he doesnt want his daughter seeing the guy(the leader of the group),but at the end of the video he finally accepts him...does anyone remember this song?
Well its not lying in court but an incident happened with my boyfriend where he came into my house he was drunk it was 12 at night but i was sleeping he had a key which i didnt know about but dont really care cause he is my boyfriend and my daughters father,,,but we had gotten into an argument and I asked him to leave and he went and got drunk and came into my house and grabbed a knife and woke me up saying "where is he?" but he was so drunk and I know that he wouldnt of done anything with the knife cause he is my boyfriend and I know him and he is awsome with our daughter,,,anyway long story short he ended up leaving my house after this happened but I called the police because I was frighted my daughter was sleeping he had a key to my house so i had to get my locks changed to but I had to go to the police station at 1 in the morning with my daughter and give a video statement which wasnt that long but I said everything that happened,,,now he got picked up from these charges and he goes to court this morning,,,he called me yesterday (i know he shouldnt have but I love him) and told me that they want 3-4 YEARS from him!!!! this is bullshit and he is going to court today to plead guilty to these charges because he doesnt want to be stuck in this stupid jail here in sudbury,,,,but I told him that I was going to go talk to the crown this morning but can I say that I made some stuff up because I was so mad at him?? I mean they still know that he came in with a knife but if i tell them that he isnt like that and I said things I shouldnt have then what will happen to me? because I gave a video statement and I had to put my hand on the bible thing,,,,but if i tell them i had just woken up i didnt know what was going on and that I was mad at him and things where just coming out of my mouth that shouldnt have been,,do you think I can get in trouble?? Please anyone help,,,He cant get 3-4 years for this its crazy!! My ex beat me for 2 years and when I finally spoke out he only got 3 MONTHS!!! like wtf and this guy has NEVER laid a finger on me,,,,thank you for taking the time to read this
he only came in with the knife because he thought i was sleeping with someone but as soon as he saw that I wasnt he just pretty much left and never said anything,,,it sounds bad but I know for afact he wouldnt have done anything with it,,,,plus I always pushed him to belive I was sleeping with other people and I was always saying that you will never catch me and saying bad stuff to him,,,
I remember the music video having multiple meanings but still about someone leaving, it shows like 3 or 4 families with this problem. I think one is about a daughter's father leaving her and her mom and another about someone going to war. I think it was a little rap-ish but can't remember correctly, but it says something like I've been waiting. I wish I remembered more...
It was soft rap though, more rap-like rhyming but not rap background music I don't think.
I think the part with the girl it shows her crying and hiding under a table (not sure) and the son that went to war it just shows his photo on the wall or something like that.
OMG thank you Ellen! It's definitely Frankie J - Daddy's Little Girl. I think I got that part with the picture mixed up with Were'd you go, but I knew it was someone going to war lol
Okay, this might be a long one. My husband has two teenage step daughters. One is 14 and the other 16. The 16 year old looks and dresses like a boy. Dont worry, we have thought of abuse...there isnt any. Whenever she plays video games she names her charecter Marcus. She has lied and told us she doesnt have a facebook accountk, but she does and she has it under the name Marcus. That was easy to find, I just looked at her best friends profile and it shows her friends. I have also seen IM's from this girl to my stepdaughter and she pretends to be this "boy" when she talks. I have brought this up to my husband and he is in denial, either that or he doesnt want to deal with it.
The 14 year old is dressing and acting like a girl. She has recently been caught in a lie. This past summer she said she wanted to live with us so we moved from our city to their town so they wouldnt have to change schools or be away from their mom. Keep in mind we had to drag my 8 year old son out of his school to make sure they were happy and not move them from theirs. My son and I also moved out here to this state from our home state when I met my now husband. Anyways we do a week on, and a week off. This past friday they went to the football game without asking their dad. Then when we were waiting for them to call so we could pick them up...we find out our youngest goes to her friends house to spend the night. She says her mom told her she could, when she really said to ask her father. They were walking the streets at 11pm 4 girls mind you. They went to her moms house to get her camera...whos to say they didnt sneak out and go anywhere else? We found out the next morning, told her to come home only to have her talking back to her dad and going home to wait for her mom. After work her mom brought her over and we had a big family talk. She was grounded for the weekend and lost her phone for a day. I had a feeling something was up so I looked through her phone. Come to find out she was bragging to all her friends about how she was grounded and that she yelled at her dad because he was an ***hole. I have talked to my hubby and he is so pathetic. I love him but he never punishes them, thats why they do all the things they do. They get away with everything, and yet he yells at my son for any little thing and he is only 8! What do we do? I dont want to hear about privacy. We pay for the phone so it our phone. She shouldnt be sneaking out, lying, calling her dad names. None of it. We moved here for them and they dont even appriciate it. Their mom cheated on their dad and for some reason they think she is so great and they treat their dad like whatever.
1. My hubby and I have talked about the difference between the girls and my son. I get the feeling he is hard on him because he wasnt on his own girls. Either way we end up fighting.
2. I wont move back home, we are married and I love him very much he is very very good to us.
3. We DID do the summer/vacation swaps. We didnt move to the same town just to keep the same sched. We went from a 3 bdrm to a 5 bdrm house that costs way more. Trust me the whole point in moving was to see them more than the weekends.
4. I know she is probably gay. Im from San Francisco so I get it.
5. They act like such saints when we talk to them, I dont know if their mom will enforce any groundings...I think she will but who knows. I just dont get how they can be so ungrateful. They live in a crappy trailer....WE BUY EVERYTHING FOR THEM! I just dont get it.
I have asked "D" why she dresses the way she does. She also used to have long hair and chopped it to a boys cut. All her clothes are mens clothes. She is more than just a tomboy. Her mom allowed her to dress that way. She will cry if we try to make her wear anything else. When we go out to eat people call her sir. We even had ppl look at our home and said her room was clean for a boys room. The other one has no reason to resent her dad. She is spoiled. My hubby is the strong silent type. Most of the time I just think he doesnt know what to say. Whenever I try to talk to him, he just says he doesnt want to talk about it anymore, then gets mad at me for putting it in his head to begin with.
my fiancee has a 13 year old daughter...the daughter's father passed away 4 years ago...she receives social security survivor benefits...well, all 3 of us have lived together the past year...the mother is very responsible with the money she gets for her daughter and saves i would say 90 percent of the money...the daughter will get a nice sum of money when she turns 18 as the mom has invested some of the money for her very wisely as well...the daughter doesn't want for anything and really gets whatever she wants...these things are paid for by me and her mother's wages...please don't get me wrong, i consider myself a parent and i do want to provide for this family...the problem is that the mom saves all this money from what the dad from prior made for his family (he comited suicide, so he "bailed" out as far as i am concerned)...there are many times that i am stuck buying things for the kid such as video games, and other "fun" stuff...the kid gets all sorts of money to go out and have good times every weekend while her mother and i don't have any money to even go out for a dinner for example on valentines day (yes it happened and yes the daughter got to get presents and go away on a trip that we paid for with her grandparents)...i know the survivor benefits should spent on necessities...couldn't some of that money be spent on our rent, the daughters clothes, food, etc?...please don't turn this into me "begrudging" a child things...that is not what i am doing...BUT, does the mother have to use all of our money spoiling the kid while we can't afford to do anything we would like to do?...i feel bad the our girl lost her real father, but how can i not feel resentful that all my money goes into the necessities and letting the girl have what ever she wants while there is literally 10's of thousands of dollars sitting in the girls bank account...i know, "don't spoil the daughter so much!"...well, that is a totally different issue that i would like solved...am i wrong for thinking that some of those survivor benefits should go into the necessities of raising a child?...
i do think it is a great thing that the mom saves most of her money...but shouldn't some of it be spent on taking care of the child as well?...
My husband and I were relaxing after he came home from work last night. He likes to have a glass of wine, sometimes he'll watch videos on his iPhone until I come and join him for the second half of the evening. He was watching the last scene of The Graduate when he told me that it reminded of him of a similar situation he was in before. I'm like, 'oh please, like what?' He told me that when he was fifteen, a friend's mother came onto him as he started seeing her daughter. It lasted for a whole summer. The woman was married.
I know this situation happened nearly thirty years ago. He has been monogamous in our relationship from the very beginning and through our marriage, we've been together for five years and we have a fairly large age difference between us and a one year old son. I know that there are certain things positive and negative he's had the chance to do given the x-amount of years he has on me, and I'm a fairly unmoved person, and at the end of the day I'm fairly lucky to have him as a husband and a father to our son.
However, hearing that really bugged me and I would rather forget I heard it.
What is the best way to 'forget' I've heard this and get it out of my mind?
Thanks guys :)
No, I'm not losing sleep over it or biting my nails. I have a very healthy kind of tolerance, but just did not want to hear that kind of thing just as I'm about to go to bed. Very unclassy, husband. :)
My father and mother got a divorce 4 years ago. My mother found a new guy like 5 months afterward, and we quickly moved in! Anyways, not the problem!
His daughters name is Dawn. She is 13 now and I've known her for like 3 and a half years now. At the beginning of the friendship she was awesome! We went to Kennywood, Sandcastle, etc, everywhere together! We couldn;t leave eachothers sight!
But now in the present she died her hair different colors, she wears overly thick black eyeliner, she likes the scene look, she has an attitude, and shes been calling me very unpleasent names lately.. and replacing me with her other friends! that NEVER happened before. shes morphing into a brat!
I didn't like the way I was being treated so I texted her while she was away with her other friends and told her I didnt like her anymore and we got into a huge fight. She left her dads house and went to her moms house and hasnt returned in a week! maybe shes gone for good.. :(
I watched a video she made me awhile back when we first met and I cried! I cant leave her but I dont like her!
Ive tried talking to her about why i dont like her but she says thats her style. I dont like her being rude, but shes like my sister, i cant just leave her! shes getting more and more into looking like shes emo and I hate it. Shes getting more mean too! I never even did anything, and she was never like this!
I cant stand her but i LOVE her, i dont know what to do! I swear ive tried everything. How can I be her friend, without her being mean or looking this way, Its making my mother and her boyfriend fight!!
This is really long but please read this...
My father and I have never had a good relationship, but these last two years it has just gotten worse and now I can hardly stand to be around him, but I'm starting to wonder if it is all my fault..?
First... when I was growing up, I had a really nice life. I had friends and was very outgoing. When I was a toddler though, in the home videos my mother used to take, my father was usually watching TV or sleeping, even on Easter. Those are still his two favorite things.
Still, things were okay until I was eleven and started seventh grade and he promised that we wouldn't move again like always, but after I made close friends, we did. Every time I cried about having to leave, he got mad at me and would yell and swear at me. Ever since, I hate crying around people, especially him. After we moved, I changed, I was alone and depressed. But my whole family was happy there, so I've never told them the truth. I want them happy.
My dad's always had a temper, and he started to focus it on me. He started calling me an a**hole and a mother f*cking idiot every day. Every time I see him he yells at me for something. He's sick. I think he enjoys making everyone miserable, like their is pleasure to be earned in my pain. I used to be strong, but not anymore. He makes me feel like a failure, like I'm not good enough for anyone or, as corny as it sounds, myself. I've set myself up to his expectations - even when I somewhat accomplish them, it's not enough for either of us and it scares me. But I didn't ask to be here and sometimes I wish I weren't.
So my parents decided, a few months ago, to move back here just as I was getting a few friends and starting to like it in California a bit - of course. I didn't want to leave but we did.
We've come back and I can't tell if he's worse or the same. He wants me to be perfect but I'm not. He's disappointed by my grades, which were terrible though I did really try. He always says they're too average and, because I'm HIS, I have to do above everyone else when he makes me feel below them. He tells me that he owns me and that I must "do as he commands" without question. If he accuses me of something I didn't do, I can't defend myself. He'll take it as "talking back" and will tell me to go to my room. I'm afraid to be around him, I get tense when I hear his voice or his loud footsteps on the stairs. I try to avoid him, but it's impossible. He gets mad over everything. He didn't even let me sleep in past eleven during the summer, he grounded me when I did.
I feel like I'm a letdown because I'm not the daughter he and my mom wanted. But he controls everyone, like his mom. He loves power, money, TV, poker, and himself, not me. I was so happy before, but now I have very little and I think it's my fault. I shouldn't have attached myself to my old friends or believe his fake and fickle promises. Otherwise, I might be who I used to be, when I was lovable. But I have no real friends and my parents resent me. My mother doesn't listen to me, she's just like him, so I nicknamed her Little D. She always puts the blame on me and lets him boss her/us around. He's changed her, she's not the person she was. "you're not the person that I once knew...." like that Hilary Duff song..
But I might have changed her. I think it may be my fault. My family would be so much better off without me. I'm not suicidal, but still. Everything would be easier if I weren't here, so much so that I feel like crying. Am I the reason my father is so angry? I'm starting to wonder, is it me who is ruining my family? How should I change, what should I do?
I just want everything to be happy.
Is it me or does it seems in today's Hip Hop and Rap world, its not safe to be a female? I've been thinking about this for a while, if you are ugly, they make fun of you, if you are attractive, they pursue you. If you do no let them 'hit', they call you a 'trick', but if you do right after they call you a 'hoe'. These rappers or men act like males are superior and they are above the female they sleep with. Like examples; Lil Wayne sleeps with all these women and then call them hoes. Drake points out parts of the female body, and Trey Songz onl sings about sex, and admitted to enjoying choking girls before they orgasm. Its like if they were not famous and rich, no girl would want them with that attitude and I'm sorry but horrible looks. I do not think they care. I am just saying its not safe to have a vagina because if you do it gives them the green light to hound on you like a dog.
Lil Wayne is very nasty. In one of his songs entitled 'Pop Bottles', he says "Im sorry sweetheart, I thought you were my other woman." He is a father, what do you think he would do to his daughter for saying, "Im sorry daddy, I thought you were my other father!" There are not any other rappers that dont just sing about sex. Lil Wayne who is very heavy in the game right now sings about oral sex, R.Kelly had sex with a 14 year old. In the videos these girls are dancing and shaking everything they got and I bet the guys always sleep with them, what has Hip Hop came to?
If you are a woman: Would you even talked to these rappers if you knew they didn't have money.
If you are a man: Do you agree?
I love my husband (David) more than anything, but there is a big problem in our marriage, his mother and her evil step daughters. I married into a pretty twisted family, my husbands family would always hang out with this other family. He was engaged and in a relationship with the daughter ( Sara) from the other family for 4 years. Then his mother (Tabitha) and her father (Darren) started having an affair. Both of the families broke up and now my husbands mother is married to her father.
My family never brings up my ex's or anything like that in my opinion it is inappropriate. But daily I live with my husbands ex's in my life. In family videos they will have pictures of him and one ex and him and another, when you walk into my my mother in law's house the only picture of him with a girl is him with the Sara. I was bestfriends with Sara's sister Kelly. When she found out that me and David where together she hated me she put nails in my tires and started spreading rumors. When me and david found out we were having a baby she decided to tell Tabitha that the baby wasn't his (which it is) and there was no doubt that is wasn't I have never cheated on him.
Now time has passed and it has just gotten worse all Tabitha wants every one to be considered brother and sister and considering the circumstances its wrong. Tabitha is also a major problem in our marriage! But for now it is this.
Sara and Kelly consider david there brother which he is not, and they both so fake around me. I don't like the situation. I told sara that she is not my childs aunt and she is not in our lives. And shit went haywire!
Me and my david play on a adult softball team and they showed up and david didn't do anything. Instead when kelly told him to tell me a play like shit he did (i don't play softball, I dont like it). Then when I got upset he yelled at me and didn't understand why i am upset.
My question is how do i handle the future. Is there hope for me and my husband? How do i handle the evil witches?
*I read this on a blog*
Michael jackson may have been acquitted of sexual abuse charges back in 2005, but he definetly wasn't acquitted by the public. After reading trial transcripts and using common sense, I think its pretty obvious that MJ was falsely accused during the 2005 case. First of all, Its not farfetched to believe that someone would make up molestations claims just for money. Its all been done before so don’t act surprised. Sometimes I can’t help but wonder how things would have been if Michael had never done that documentary.
If Martin Bashir had practiced responsible journalism from the beginning, then none of this drama would have started.. Firstly, he should never have interviewed Gavin arvizo without his parent's written permission. Secondly, his company never should have aired that footage, showing gavin's face without express, written permission. He was a minor at the time and should have had some form of consent. His mother was'nt even aware that he was in the video until it aired. This documentary destroyed this family’s life. Gavin was getting teased and harassed at school, the mother was being investigated for neglect and the family was being bombarded for interviews by numerous news outlets and tabloids. Janet arvizo was angry that her son was included in this documentary without her consent and had plans to team up with michael to file a multi million dollar lawsuit against martin Bashir and BBC..When Michael decided to end his ties with the family because of all the negative publicity, that’s when things started going downhill.
Azja pryor, chris tucker’s ex girlfriend, had testified that janet had called her in early march complaining that Michael and his bodyguards were keeping her and the kids away from neverland. Azja’s testimony was important because the phone call was placed around the time frame gavin claimed Michael was molesting him. Janet was obviously upset that Michael wasn’t taking care of the family like he was and felt that he should be held accountable for the hell she and her family had to endure as a result of the martin bashir documentary. The media had already labeled MJ a child molester and her son was his victim, so why not go along with it and at least get some money? That is why she went to 2 civil lawyers claiming her son was molested instead of going to the police. Janet and the kids went to Larry Feldman, the same attorney who got a settlement for jordie chandler. According to journalist Larry King, Larry Feldman told him that the mother was a “wacko” and that he felt she was only in it for the money and that he didn’t believe the boy and that he refused to take the case, so instead he sent the family over to a therapist and 2 police officers. During the meeting with the cops, thats when all the lurid details emerged. Gavin told them that Michael showed him porn, masturbated him, gave him alcohol and kissed him. His brother told them that he witnessed everything and the sister said she saw Mj giving her brothers alcohol. The mother told them that Michael had kidnapped her and her children and held them against their will so they could film a rebuttal video, but the funny thing about that is, when the video aired, it didn't even include them.
Gavin and his family originally told police that everything happened BEFORE the martin documentary aired, but suddenly changed their stories when they realized that Michael wasn’t even at neverland during that time period. Then all of a sudden everything happened AFTER the video aired. This isn’t the first time this family has accused someone of sexual abuse. They filed false claims against jcpenny where the mother claimed she was sexually assaulted and fondled. The kids all backed up her story and was paid a huge settlement. They also filed sexual abuse claims against the father claiming he kidnapped the family and molested the daughter.
I honestly don't know how these people sleep at night
Okay so i'm making a video for my Dad for Fathers Day and i need a song to go with it. The video is going to have clips of me, my brothers, my Mum and my Dad of course.
I don't want anything sad, because i don't want it to feel like it's a funeral video or anything lol. So nothing slow or quiet.
But please if you have any song suggestions, tell me! :)
Thanks!
-Dakota (daughter)
Lawyers, please, I am not "out to get you"...
We are anonymous, here on YA. Please help me.
I want to know:
Did my lawyer trick me?????
too long details boring:
I'm Manic Depressive Bi Polar. My governement assigned lawyer advised me to sign away my parental rights to my first born son!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She said that if I did NOT sign away my rights (all parental rights) She said that the GOVERNMENT would take my other child (a baby girl) and put her in foster care the instant she was BORN!
After I signed the papers and went to court, and , yes, signed away all parental rights.......
My current boyfriend, the Father of my little girl, is in my little girl's life. How could what my lawyer told me be true?????????
Surely, the OTHER parent would get custody!
My little baby girl was NOT going to go into the foster care system!!!!!!!
Did my lawyer trick me???!!!
Sure, it's not morally acceptable to lie to a client, but Golly gee, it could happen. Not of course, YOU, the lawyer, but maybe you have seen other lawyers do this? Do you allow your opinion to disrupt your work? Do you tell your client to sign away rights to her child, just cuz you "feel " like doing so? you think that maybe I'm not a good mother, so you tell me to just sign away my rights? and make up a story to tell me? a lie? just to get me to do what you want?
I guess there's no legal action I can take now, huh? I don't have finances to sue anyone. but I really do love my child. (He's with family now. so, it would be big arguement that would tear apart families.) They let him stay up late and sleep in until ten am. he just plays video games all day. He's fat. (my family calls and talks about the fabulouse breads, garlic and olive oil, cheese, every vegetable in butter, and then she says "he's fat" and "it's YOUR fault" its a psychological thing. YOU did this to him." ) It breaks my heart. I would never allow such things! We used to run and play outside ALLL day! I'm vegetarian and vegan,by the way. Not into butter and cheese, much.
I'm not always well. that is how I lost custody. what if I am Mentally "well" now? and how much so? I'm financially stable only because I get disability $ to care for me and my daughter. If I claim I am "well" to be a fit parent, then I'm "well" enough to go to work, and get off disability? huh? well .Ok.
Thanks for listening. Please answer the orginal question. Thank you.
I know the lawyer said I could marry the father (of my child) so it would look better on paper. The father of my first born child is not involved in his life. He has no rights.
I will not/can not have any more children. So , please, let's not make this part an issue. And you think I'm a terrible person. OK> thank you for your opinion. I undetstand that part. Me, mentally ill= scum of society, get gov.tax payer $, bad person. I got it. I hear it all the time. How about the original question, please??? please? I'd like some help.
Thank you!
I lived with my parents all my life. I left the child in their custody, while they were guardians! I must have had an episode. I left the house. I'd go for walks at night. I'd leave. just leave. I "ran away from home"? at age 29? whatever. I'm stable now, with a boyfriend/husband fiance, whatever.
I lived with my parents all my life. I left the child in their custody, while they were guardians! I must have had an episode. I left the house. I'd go for walks at night. I'd leave. just leave. I "ran away from home"? at age 29? whatever. I'm stable now, with a boyfriend/husband fiance, whatever.
I lived with my parents all my life. I left the child in their custody, while they were guardians! I must have had an episode. I left the house. I'd go for walks at night. I'd leave. just leave. I "ran away from home"? at age 29? whatever. I'm stable now, with a boyfriend/husband fiance, whatever.
She is five months old and I moved to another state before she was born. We had a verbal agreement that he would send a certain amount each week but he hasn't for the last couple of weeks, making up excuses, and so I am filing through the courts.
I spoke to him on the phone today and he asked for some photos and videos of her. I said I would send some "if I have time." I have sent him a few over the last few months and he knows where we live and could come visit any time to see her. He said "oh so you're keeping me from my daughter?" and I said "no, you know exactly where she is and can come see her any time." and then he said "You moved away and now I can only see her through pictures and videos and if you won't send them to me we'll talk about it in court!" and hung up.... That is how he ends every conversation with me that isn't perfect for him- to hang up on me.
Am I obligated to send him photos and videos?
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I also have sole custody of her.
She is five months old and I moved to another state before she was born. We had a verbal agreement that he would send a certain amount each week but he hasn't for the last couple of weeks, making up excuses, and so I am filing through the courts.
I spoke to him on the phone today and he asked for some photos and videos of her. I said I would send some "if I have time." I have sent him a few over the last few months and he knows where we live and could come visit any time to see her. He said "oh so you're keeping me from my daughter?" and I said "no, you know exactly where she is and can come see her any time." and then he said "You moved away and now I can only see her through pictures and videos and if you won't send them to me we'll talk about it in court!" and hung up.... That is how he ends every conversation with me that isn't perfect for him- to hang up on me.
Am I obligated to send him photos and videos?
I also have sole custody of her.
Friday, October 30, 2009
father daughter relationship poem
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I am 24 and he is 30. We have been together for a year and a half. He has a 6 year old daughter. We have had a kind of rocky relationship but we were very committed to eachother. We have lived together all but 3 months of that. He asked my Dad if he could marry me two months into our relationship. When we met I was still recovering from an eating disorder and he had just lost his house to foreclosure so we both had struggles. We met at our job. He worked crazy hours because he has split custody of his daughter. So we got a rental house and things were rocky but we loved eachother very much. We were fighting more and more but I didn't know why. I blamed myself alot and always ended up apologizing to him. He never liked to address our problems. He met my family and they loved him. I met his and they were way different from mine.. pretty cold and unwelcoming. But it was okay. I always saw the good in him and he had a big heart. He had his troubles but I always saw the good side to him. And I loved how he had helped me in my recovery and showed me how to live my life as enjoyable as possible. I got pregnant and he seemed okay with it. I was happy though I wished we had waited until we were more stable. He went on a trip to Honduras with me and my extended family. He surprised me and asked my dad if he could marry me and proposed to me. I was so happy and surprised. When we got back we started fighting a lot. I now realize that it was how he talked to me. He wasn't very nice to me. We had my ultrasound to see what we were having and it was a girl. He seemed to be kind of unhappy about that and stopped really acknowledging my pregnancy. He never once did anything to help me while I was pregnant. He would get on to me for doing the laundry wrong and for asking him to clean up after himself in the kitchen. I would cry all the time because he would just be mean and tell me I'm crazy (i was hormonal!) and then ignore me and spend time with his daughter so he didn't have to address our problems. I was isolated and miserable just a few months after our engagement. I was getting more and more frustrated and unhappy. I cried all the time and he'd tell me to leave the house if I was going to do that. It seemed like sex was the only thing we still had. I tried to talk to him but he didn't want to anymore. He blamed me for all of the problems and I believed him.. though it didn't feel right. I was just trying to make it work. I was so good to him. Rubbed his back, cooked, brought him food to work, played with his daughter. He didn't do one thing for me except wash my car (which I could care less about). I kept asking him if he still wanted to be with me which drove him crazy but it really didn't feel right. I even paid for counseling for us. He came two times and I was hopeful that we'd figure it out. Then he threw me a baby shower with both our families. That same day, we had an argument and he called and said he wouldn't be coming home. I was crying and felt desparate. Instead of giving him space I kept telling him to come back and we can make it work. I was hysterical. I stayed with my mom and I got him a new bike I'd been wanting to get him. I thought space would be good. But while I was gone he had a 20 year old girl over and slept with her in my bed, leaving my bedsheets in a heap after he washed them. He avoided me for a whole week and then just said he was done and that he had been 'over me' for a month. I found love poems he had wrote with this girl in my house. He stayed with his sister and had this girl who is a 20year old single mother staying there with him because she just split with the father of her baby. They were waiting there because they thought I would move out of my house and let them take over the lease but I wasn't having that. I wanted him to come back. Finally he got his own place with her and left me with a $1100 lease and bills and hasn't talked to me since. Not about the baby not about how I am not about where I'm staying. I'm devastated and confused. Please give me your opinion. Please don't judge.
If it's too long for you then don't read it. You don't have to comment on it. Please be a little more mature. THank you.
My friends and family told me that I was probably the best girl he had ever had the chance to be with. And I was very good to him. I guess I am not strong enough to demand better for myself yet. But in a way he did love me too... but I guess it was a very immature love. I just was asking him to be there and support me and show me he loved me and he didn't know how to do that. He got tired of me asking for that little bit of support and he left. I felt alone all of the pregnance. The hardest part about letting go is that I still see the good in him and his intentions. I think I may have wanted him to be and saw him as something that he wasn't. I feel stupid. This has been the hardest experience of my short life.
My step-mother was physically and emotionally abusive to me for 14yrs. growing up. I haven't talked to her or my father in nine years but I have alot of hate and have been struggling to move on .I would like to hear feedback on the poem as well as If I should sent it to her ?or just put it in a box ?Please help somehow after all this time I can't let go of this,and it has affected my relationship with my husband of 12yrs. Why is that?
Either way here it is.....
you've hated me so all through my life ,and all you are is my dads newest wife,
you've taken my soul and heart in such a way ,i can't forgive you to this day,
my kids were born with no sight of you, you we're supposed to be part of who they knew.
you took my childhood right out of me, you shoved my face in my own pee,
you took my head and banged it so , i've never hit an all time low,
i bet your power is your drug of choice,i bet it is when hateful actions gave me no voice,
to stop you and all the hurt, you even ripped up my favorite shirt,
you monitored my calls, and told me no, how in the hell was i suppose to grow,
i dropped out just to run from you, getting away was all i could do.
i told mom and you beat me worse, u just wanted me to end up in a hurst..
i bet you never thought with your cheerleading daughters,when i'd be the one to tread water..
i can't keep friends, or the love of my life, again this is to you,my dad's newest wife ,
no wonder why i feel like i'm dying, because im not happy ,I seem to be only crying.
i hate you,but not that you care ,grow a heart if you dare,
take back your actions and words you have said ..
because of you i have lived half dead.
i miss myself ,oh wait i don't know who that is ..all wasn't wasn't one of your kids
but somehow through the pain you've cased in my life ,again all i think of you as is my dads newest wife.
a person with no remorse for anything you've done ,well it starts with me NOW..the battle will be won...
it's gonna be awhile but i refuse to quit, not over you, and yourhatefulatefull PITY ME shit.
you've done enough damage now, i have to let go ....now it's time for me to say ,NO!!!
FINALLY
My father never stood up to her either,he,turned to drugs and alh.-he almost killed both of us when I was 8 my step-mom told him to take "your daughter"me (while) throughly intoxicated and he let his hands off the wheel and wrapped the truck around a telephone pole.
I miss my father and have heard through my half brother he and my grandma his mom are'nt doing well..I just can't bare to face her after all this time
PS. when i copied the poem from my notepad to this site it duplicated some of my words,and left out some .sorry
Thankyou all so much for your feedback this has been really difficult for me and because of that it does feel like "she's winning the battle"
My heart sank once more, fearing another outburst like the day before.
My father walked up to her and embraced her and tried to kiss her lightly upon her forehead but she shrugged him off, scolding him with distaste. He reluctantly withdrew and asked, “How was your sleep, honey?”
She lazily gazed at me and I averted my eyes downward towards the counter.
“Well, I was having a good sleep until you two woke me up,” said mother grumpily glaring at him. “What was with all of the fuss, anyway?”
My father’s eyes flickered my way and I caught his gaze. A small smile pierced the intensity of my lips. He waited until my mother was busy making herself coffee; the soft grinding off coffee beans broke the awkward silence.
He made his funny gesture once more and I laughed.
“Now what is it?” My mother said turning around and glaring at me with utter disgust, as if I was nothing more than gum stuck to the bottom of her shoe.
“Nothing,” I said trying with all of my strength to stifle a laugh.
But I could not as a sudden tidal wave of laughter broke through the seams of my mouth and my father broke into laughter of equal merit. I howled and buried my face into my arms which were crossed upon the counter. My black hair splayed all across my arms creating a tent in which only my face would emerge from.
My mother tapped her fingers on the mahogany counters, pouring her coffee into a golden mug decorated with red roses, letting the steam waft into the air, and then took a sip.
She flustered with agitation and said, “I really do not see what all of the fuss is about, and what are you laughing about Miss Charlene Mae Dawson?”
Her voice rose stifled our laughter, yet the vibrations silhouetted within the echoes still vibrated long after subsiding to a dull whisper.
She glared at me and slammed her coffee mug down against the counter with a loud clank. I peered up from my make-shit tent, still smiling at my father who had cowered in fear of another eruption by my mother who threateningly put her hands on her hips. The small lump in my throat grew hard and painful to swallow.
“Nothing,” I said brushing my bangs away from my eyes.
“Nothing, huh,” said my mother with disbelief. “And what will you be doing today Miss Charlene Mae Dawson, going to the beach and writing another one of your useless poems?”
I said nothing.
Obviously flushed by my resistance for confrontation she continued, “Or will you just sit up in your room doing nothing and wasting your life away while many other’s are out looking for jobs, going to college----“
She swallowed with resentment. My father bowed his head down looking at his feet and murmured, “Honey, please, we are trying to have a peaceful morning and you are just---“
He never got to finish as her chest swelled with frustration, “I am just what Jonathan? Her voice like feet snapping branches in two.
He sighed and continued, “Nothing, look, honey,” grabbing her by the shoulders, “Your constant putting down and arguing over this will not make anything better, why don’t you just focus on giving your daughter the support she needs and stop comparing her to other’s children out there.”
“Do you know how—utterly embarrassing it is to go down to the country club and listen to all of the other women speak about their son’s and daughters, about how they are going off to ivy league schools like Yale, Harvard, Princeton, West Point, amidst a variety of others----“
She paused and said with an even quieter tone,” You can’t imagine how that must feel to know that other’s daughters and sons are going off to college and doing something with their lives and your daughter is just---just---“ She didn’t finish.
My father picked up where she had left off and calmly said, “Is just biding her time and awaiting an opportunity that best suits her. “
“She is my daughter,” said mother chewing the words then spitting them out and tossing his arms aside like rag dolls.
Her face contorted into a sort of ugly grimace. Her eyes glowed with anger and her face began to flash beet red as if it was a warning of a melt down. Her feet remain firmly planted upon the kitchen tile.
I peered up at my father, eyes widened with surprise. He had never spoken out against my mother like that before. I did not know what to say.
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Basically in a nut shell:
Her mother is mad because she didn't graduate has not job all she does is write poetry. Her father is understanding has a great relationship with her daughter mother doesn't. Charlene (daughter) meets a black girl whose dialect is a bit different because she is from the other side of town, she is poor but she did graduate, a clash between two social and economic backgrounds.=]
They change each others lives.
Father learns he has prostate cancer and eventually dies.
She narrates in the end that he does=[
I
She is 26 and has a child of her own, her father and me have been dating for almost 4 yrs. Her jealousy resembles that of a child, she dedicates poems, songs to him that talk about daughters instead of dad's, gives him pictures of both, calls herself daddy's little girl... she even went as far as to move two doors down to interrupt our privacy, i've really tried to have a good relationship, kissed her butt basically, but it seems that the happier we are the more jealous she gets.
She says she adores her dad but aren't daughters suppose to be happy for their dad's happiness? she has been disrespectful towards him before for something like him missing her call! and i've stood up for him because he allows her to step all over himI got her dad to stop using drugs, cigarettes, become more healthy. I am younger than her, her dad and I have a 20 + age difference but we have a great relationship and the age isn't an issue at all. His family say i'm the best thing to happen to him- all but her of course. She has stated she hopes we don't have children, she even went as far as to say he didn't love her anymore because he didn't dance with her in a recent wedding ( first time she saw us dance together). I just find this all so unusual- never expected to have to deal with this situation with a grown step-daughter.
she isn't his biological child, can this have anything to do with it. Btw the whole family also thinks she has issues and behaves childish. We live far from her now but even when we saw her recently she acted cold, non-talkative except from the occasional grabbing him for a pic of them together- sometimes she acts more like a jealous girlfriend! HELP!
Mr. Warrior, No- I do not expect her to call her mommy but to respect me and her father. I have tried everything: babysitting for her, giving her advice, money, inviting her for dinner. We actually we're really close once until she accused her father of being a bad dad because she called late at night and he didn't pick up because he was sleeping. I've even gone as far as to tell me when she wants to see her dad for me to get out of the house, just so they don't stop seeing each other! I don't think anyone my age would do that or any other woman for that matter. and I actually move out of my country without my family or friends for her dad and went into a serious depression. He doesn't have any $$$ so money isn't the issue.
Ok. It’s a long story, but I need serious guidance on this issue. I need to include as many details as I can because they all contribute to this issue. Ok. This past valentines day I asked an old friend of mine on a date. We had know each other for over four years, all through out high school, but it had take me that long to build up the nerve to finally ask her out. Part of it was her ex-boyfriend. They were together for almost a year and were obviously in love. I didn’t want to interfere with that. She had gotten pregnant during this time, and I was in military school so we weren’t talking much. They broke up several month after the baby was born, because she found out she was cheating on him. Ok, so she had a 5 month old child when we went on this date and we ended up getting really close that night. We had sex, and I don’t know how because we had just started talking again. We just kind of connected and it happened. We started dating and we became really close to each other. She says its crazy but she feel more in love with me and cared for me more than she ever did here ex in such a short period of time. I started getting close to, and then I got scared. I didn’t know if I was ready to be a father or handle any of this, so I turned away. I started talking to another girl, and I thought to myself, “It would just be easier to go with her.” I wasn’t dating her, and I told her I didn’t know if I wanted to give up this girl I really cared for her, but then I accidentally sent a text meant for her to the girl I was dating, and I admit I had told my girlfriend I had stop talking to this other girl. So, we broke up, enviably, and I started dating this other girl. My ex also started dating someone else. It just didn’t feel right, it was like I was trying to fill a gap with the wrong person, and I became jealous of this other guy my ex was seeing, something that had never happened before. Over time my ex and I started talking again, after I had said some really ugly things to her, we became close again, and I tried to win her back. Over time I did and we started dating again. And she tried to leave me several times but I wrote her dozens of poems and several songs and brought her flowers and feel in love with her and her daughter and even her family. I became attached to all of them. We became close again, and a few weeks ago, I propose. It’s seemed things were headed in the right direction and she was beginning to show me love and affection again. Then our problems started mounting. She didn’t want to have sex again; I did because I thought it would make her feel close to me again, and make her love me again. Instead, after having it several times, she told me that she was only giving it to me to shut me up, and that she hated having sex now, and regretted ever giving it to me in the first place because we weren’t ready. That’s true, we weren’t, and we won’t be for awhile. Then, more recently, she stopped texting me, telling me that she loves me, or saying sweet things to me. She was starting to again, but just suddenly stopped this past week. I asked her why, and she told me it would take her time to let me in again. Her ex had hurt her, I had hurt her, her family and especially her father had hurt he since she had her daughter. I asked to many questions I guess, and she told me she just wasn’t affectionate anymore and when she was her ex and I walked all over her. She said it may take a year it may take twelve years, to start showing the affection that I wanted and she didn’t even know if she could ever love me like she did. After we talked for awhile I told I felt like I tried so hard but it was all for nothing because she just turned away from me again. Then she told me she just didn’t want to do this anymore. She said being in a relationship was too hard being a teenage mother, being a full time college student, working a job on weekends, and being hurt as much as she had. She pointed out I was going off to college and I would meet new girls there, and “she knew how I was.” She broke up with me, after it all, and I’ve never been hurt like this before. I’m insanely in love with her, and I would give anything just to be with her again and feel loved like I was. I screwed it up by leaving the first time and not a SINGLE day goes by that I don’t regret what I’ve done. She says she still loves me more than anything but her daughter, if not as much as she id before, but she can’t deal with me right know and wants to be alone. She says she doesn’t have the energy to work at a relationship. I want to be with her again and her to love me like she did. Is there anything I can do or do I just have to leave it all to time and fate to decide?
I didn't actually mean to alliterate. I just did a mock at home but I really don't get the mark scheme, literature exam soon and panicking!!
I don't think I answered the second question as well.
Compare how memories are presented in homecoming and before you were mine
Compare how attitudes to loved ones are presented in two poems from pre 1914
Both’ homecoming’ and ‘before you were mine’ are similar in the fact that they are primarily presenting another persons memories rather than those of the narrators. In ‘Homecoming’ ‘it’s sixteen years or so’ before the narrator and the character being portrayed meet and in ‘before you were mine’ it’s the daughter describing her mum’s life before she was born.
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Homecoming > argument in second stanza presented through childish mind > colours ‘red’, ‘yellow’ and ‘blue’ are used to show how vivid memories can be when experienced through child etc . shows also how simple children see world
Memory in homecoming used as microcosm of all family disputes. Used to show how lucky we are to have a relationship that’s too strong to break with anything. Armitage used another layer, ‘excersize in trust’ to show this. Connecting the memories ending with trust.
Before you were mine > describing mums youth after photo . positive shiny language visual imagery of fun, interesting, bubbly lifestyle causing readers to prefer it to the image of motherhood. Duffy emphasizing how much mums give up after having children
Structure = neat and ordered = like a photo album
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Memories in both these poems are presented to portray the poets opinions on the subject. In homecoming Armitage uses a childs memory of an argument to show the loving nature of a family household and tried to persuade the reader to appreciate that gift. The canary yellow jacket ‘still fits’ after the argument over it. This is a metaphor of how the child and parents still trusted each other after the argument because of their strong, emotional connection. In before you were mine the memories her daughter imagined her mum to have are used to show the extent of sacrifices mothers everywhere make after having children
The poems on my first sonne and sonnet 130 are completely devoid of passion. This is expected in Ben Jonsons poem as it’s about the death of his son and how his love for him is causing him an immense amount of pain. This is suprising in shakespeares love sonnet, though, as typical love sonnets try and strengthen the existence of passion in the relationhip they are trying to describe
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Sonnet 130 > unflattering quote > shocking as contradicticts love poetry rules etc > reader assumes not love poem > rhyming coupet at end show Shakespeare actually does love mistress ‘quote’ he’s saying he loves as much as any couple who shower each other with false praises > believe he’s emphasizing how perfection or belief in perfection is not important in love , he believes love does not depend on fantasy and passion > ‘the goddess quote’ > he appreciates mistress and his love for they exist
One my first sonne > contrary to sonnet 130’s hidden positive tone > describes grief over love one > ‘sinne was too…’ > his positive emotions towards boy make him gloomy now
‘lose all father’ > lose faith in god > big deal for people back then > love changed his mindset
‘will man lament…’ > debates existence of grief > logical > did not comfort him though because of
‘rhyming couplet at end’ > strengthens presentation of emotions > shows he doesn’t want to love again etc
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Whilst Sonnet 130 has an underlying message to it, one my first sonne is just a poem that expresses the poets emotions. Shakespeare in sonnet 130 is bashing superficiality and reliance of fantasy in loving relationships using his love for his mistress as an example. Ben Jonson uses words such as ‘lament’ and ‘misery’ to depict how strong his grief for his son is. By doing this he is showing how much he loved his son.
THANK YOU!!!!!!!
Peace & Hatred
Peace is a natural occurrence, when God made the Earth he put it everywhere,
He sprinkled some peace on us, to share it with the world,
Peace is with us, he sprinkled it on each strand of our hair.
He sprinkled some peace in a bluebird’s beak, to help her create a melodious tune,
He sprinkled some peace in the sky, where did you think the stars came from?
He sprinkled some peace on the beach, sprinkled peace all over the sand dunes.
God sprinkled peace on a dying infant, her eyes opened and she never passed away,
He sprinkled it on a feuding mother and daughter and there relationship became stronger than ever,
God sprinkled some peace on fighting children and they stopped fighting and started to play.
Peace is sprinkled all around us; we just have to keep an eye out for it,
When all seems wrong we witness a miracle of God’s peace,
We just can’t give up, because if we all do, we will lose all of earth’s peace bit by bit.
Sadly, hatred is also sprinkled just about everywhere,
It has been sprinkled everywhere, but not sprinkled by God; sprinkled by humanity,
It reminds us of ours sins, and more is sprinkled every year.
Hatred is sprinkled in the tears of a child abused by her father,
It is sprinkled in the blood of a wounded soldier,
It is sprinkled in a starving puppy left on the streets not feed, because no one would bother.
Hatred and peace is sprinkled throughout this world,
But we need to sweep up the hatred,
And have the peace unfurled.
I wrote it in lewss than a half an hour this morning for a peace poetry contest for school. I had to enter because its our homework for language arts ut i couldn't do it last night because I was sick and wasn't in a poetry mood, is it any good, what would you change about it?
haha all my friends said it sucks, jw i already passed it in anyways
One of my friend's (shes 13)
Dad just got out of Prison a couple days ago,
He has been in there since she was 7 (so six years ago)
and she wrote, this- and wants to know what you guys think?
______________________________________...
I sat here six years
Waiting for the perfect daddy
But in those six years
I realized something
Even if I waited and got him
It would not be the same
Every one else grew up with
Their perfect dad
Why was I the only one?
Who had to wait?
No matter what,
I’ll always love you
You know that is true
But though I’ll always love you
I’ll never really know you for you
You were gone most of my life
You were the one who left me feeling blue
When they finally told me,
You were going to arrive
Even though I was happy
I felt a bit deprived
Did I really want,
Some stranger in my life?
No matter what,
I’ll always love you
You know that is true
But though I’ll always love you
I’ll never really know you for you
You were gone most of my life
You were the one who left me feeling blue
And so I sit
In my room locked away
Thinking how so long ago
I yearned for this day
And so I want to know
If you feel the same
Do you, like me
Think it will never be the same
As those kids in my class
Who always had
That perfect dad…
______________________________________...
So what dou you think?
I told her she should give it to him, but she wants other pplz opinions.
I agree its not PERFECT
but it comes frome the heart :)
We arent trying to make him feel bad, but its cuz she wants him to know how she feels-shes not just trying to tell him that its not gonna ever be the same, shes also trying to say that even though its obvious that they arent gonna have that perfect father daughter relationship she still loves him after everything he did to hher when she was little (he was abusive to her and her mother)
5 friends
First there were 5 of us,
Together like a herd,
Then time swept us away,
We drifted apart as a boat drifts at sea,
2 found their way together,
3 went on.
School starts up,
Life together is no more,
We all wonder if we will pass each other,
Share a kind smile,
But at the end of the day,
We all know it will be nothing more than a smile,
But we will always have that memory of the warmth we once shared.
Things seem close,
But as the bell rings,
They crumble to nothing,
Thoughts about our future as one,
Float around our minds,
New people try to fill these spaces,
The empty square in our hearts.
What corrections should i make?
What do u think of it?
Father-Daughter
A close bond,
Inspiration,
Uplift,
Two people as close as paper and glue.
Love,
Caring,
Lasted for years.
Boom,
Divorce,
That father-daughter relationship ripped by another human’s hands.
Now betrayal,
Only lies,
Excuses,
Filling the air as quick as smoke.
Her life hardening,
A young girl learning only to be forgotten,
“Do this for me, you need to sacrifice”,
Words she was told.
No is only a word,
Feeling’s mean nothing,
Being told she’s not worth it,
Looking to friends for care,
They too have forgotten her,
Her feelings,
Life hardships.
No father,
No friends,
Family meaning everything.
Mom and brothers,
Three not under a spell,
Respecting and helping her.
One year has gone away,
Deeper the hole,
Stronger the girls soul.
This young girl learned copping skills,
How to stand for what she needs,
Knowing NO is not just a word.
Any corrections?
~Catherine Zembrelle Parrish
PLEASE DON"T TAKE CREDIT FOR MY WORK
5 friends
First there were 5 of us,
Together like a herd,
Then time swept us away,
We drifted apart as a boat drifts at sea,
2 found their way together,
3 went on.
School starts up,
Life together is no more,
We all wonder if we will pass each other,
Share a kind smile,
But at the end of the day,
We all know it will be nothing more than a smile,
But we will always have that memory of the warmth we once shared.
Things seem close,
But as the bell rings,
They crumble to nothing,
Thoughts about our future as one,
Float around our minds,
New people try to fill these spaces,
The empty square in our hearts.
What corrections should i make?
What do u think of it?
Father-Daughter
A close bond,
Inspiration,
Uplift,
Two people as close as paper and glue.
Love,
Caring,
Lasted for years.
Boom,
Divorce,
That father-daughter relationship ripped by another human’s hands.
Now betrayal,
Only lies,
Excuses,
Filling the air as quick as smoke.
Her life hardening,
A young girl learning only to be forgotten,
“Do this for me, you need to sacrifice”,
Words she was told.
No is only a word,
Feeling’s mean nothing,
Being told she’s not worth it,
Looking to friends for care,
They too have forgotten her,
Her feelings,
Life hardships.
No father,
No friends,
Family meaning everything.
Mom and brothers,
Three not under a spell,
Respecting and helping her.
One year has gone away,
Deeper the hole,
Stronger the girls soul.
This young girl learned copping skills,
How to stand for what she needs,
Knowing NO is not just a word.
~Catherine Zembrelle Parrish
PLEASE DON"T TAKE CREDIT FOR MY WORK
A good friend of mine just lost her father. She had a very turbulent relationship with him when he was alive. He was verbally abusive, poor role model, and most of the time a drug addict. Nevetheless, she loves him dearly and he is her father. She is struggling really hard with this as most people around her think she shouldn't waste her time. I really want to send her a nice card, poem, saying something to let her know that eventhough things werent always ideal for them, loving him and missing him is okay, and that she has a friend who understands. Any suggestions?
I wrote my bio dad a letter pouring my heart out, telling him all about me. I looked up his info on the internet and found his address and mailed it to him. Two months later, I receive a letter from him but it sounds odd, it sounds rehearsed as I am reading, no real emotion, nothing about him. I look up some of the lines on the internet only to find out that it is a poem. Yes, he copied and pasted a poem about daughters into a letter (in his handwriting) and sent it to me . I haven't spoken to him in years and I get a letter back with nothing original; nothing about where he has been the last 25 years, nothing about why he left, no I am sorry, but instead pasted lyrics from a Hallmark greeting card. What should my next move be? Send him a copy of the link? Should I be mad? or Should I be happy he responded? I have had little to no contact over the span of 25 years. I am 32, a doctor, happily married, but thought that I would track him down and extend an invitation to build a relationship. I am not sure as to whether or not to be mad, happy he responsed, disappointed, etc. Any suggestions.
He signed it "Your best friend" WTF? A man I never knew and he calls himself my best friend. I don't even know what that means or how to even begin processing that. No, "I love you; I am sorry I left; sorry I missed out" Just a pasted poem and then signed, Your BFF. WTF?
I saw the lyrics to holly dunn's - daddy's hands but, are there any other songs besides this one that speak about a daughter and father relationship. Could plz send me the lyrics to Daddy's Hands as well as any others that may be suitable for making a scrapbook pg. for my friend. Her dad past away about 2 yrs. ago and her b-day along with her wedding is coming up as well and I'd like to do a special tribute pg so, she can have it for her b-day as well as her wedding day that way he's there with her in spirit though he's perished he'll still be with her through an " IN LOVING MEMORY" kinda way. can you help me out ? Otherwise, I'll make up my own poem.either way I'd like some options to view before a final decision is made. Thanks to everyone in advance. take care
sorry for the ambiguous paragraph breaks. Thesis is: Debussy's experimentations and unconventional ways have revolutionized the art of music, influencing many later composers and sparking new forms of music such as jazz.
Thesis is: Debussy's experimentation and unconventional ways have revolutionized the art of music, influecning many later composers and sparking new forms of music such as jazz
To My Father.
Who are you? Where is the father I knew?
I don't like the person you've became.
Where is the father who puts HIS kids first?
The one who I knew a few years ago.
The one who wouldn't let some woman ruin his life
or his relationship with his OWN daughters?
Most of the stuff you don't like about me is cause
YOUR the reason why I do or done it, the cutting &
the smoking,all cause of YOU.
The poem you read "Why?" was about YOU!
Most of the stuff thats wrong with me is cause of YOU!
You may not like some of the stuff I do or done,
cause you can't handle the fact that your
YOUNGEST daughter is growing up.
Your almost 45 years old & you act like your 21 again.
Its time to act your age.
Sometimes I feel like I can say that
I don't have a father cause
YOU don't hardly act like one.
And the reason why I NEVER say I love u
is cause I DON'T KNOW WHO YOU ARE ANYMORE!!
If you want to read more of my poems. Then e-mail me and I'll send then to you..
Thank You.
I don't talk to my father anymore. He calls my moms house all the time wanting to talk to him and I just don't have anything to say to him.. And I've sent the poem to him.. I mean He will understand this because I've wrote poems before and he liked them.
I lived with my dad for about 2 years and he treated me like his SLAVE.. and now that he has a girlfriend/wife, he doesn't want anything to do with his OWN girls.. My dad gets drunk like every night and his girlfriend/wife is a pothead and a crack head.. For the past 2 or 3 years my dad has changed into someone that I wish I never knew.
I don't cut myself anymore. I done it when I lived with my dad because I was depressed and is calmed me down from hitting other people...
Here is the first poem I wrote to him.
Why?
Why do you make me do this?
Why do you always have to act like this?
Why did you do this 2 me?
Why do you blame me?
Why do you always make me the bad kid in the family?
You Always ask why do i do this shit and I say because
of you and you never believed me until I really done it and
every time I'm around you I want to cry. You act like you don't
even know me.You always find a way 2 make
me cry...Why do you always do this 2 ME do it 2 someone
else because you make me feel hated and not wanted
in this world, and u make me feel like i'm not your
child...
Why this?
Why now?
Why Me?
Why?
Can you hear me
Can you hear my cries
Can you see the tears
Can you see that you hurt me
Do you remember the days you left us
Do you remember the days i begged you to stay
When will you realize the mistakes you made
You helped to bring us into this world
But after that you were hardly around
There were other things more important
We never meant much
But we loved you even when you hurt us
It took mom 24 years to realize
She could do better
Our lives are changing
And your still not around much
You know you hurt us
And we know that you didnt care
Once in our lives it would be nice
Nice to know that we can rely on you
Just once would i like my dad to be there
One time to know that my dad cares for me
Yeah, your trying now
But I've been in this world for 15 years
And its taken you this long to come around
When will i be able to rely on you each day
Where will our father-daughter relationship be in a year
I would like to think that my wedding day will be special
Dad, you hurt us when you hurt mom
It hurt to know that we just weren't good enough somedays.
It sucked to know that you had to cheat in order to feel "good"
I hate knowing each day you go home from work
And see my half sister and a kid who isnt even yours
But what i hate more is knowing our family has grown apart, and we will never ever be the same
It contains a story of a man who gets drunk and impregnates both of his daughters after his wife dies.
There are incidents of people eating their own children.
Children are sacrificed on an altar to a god.
Animals are ritually sacrificed.
Two of the men seem to have a homo-erotic relationship and one states to the other that 'your love far exceeds that of a woman'.
The book also contains many occult practices, such as divination, conjuring, and speaking with the dead.
There is a bizarre poem about incest with a man's underage sister, and comments about horse semen.
The book also openly promotes slavery and polygamy, and the keeping of royal brothels?
Several times, characters in the book have sex with their step-mothers or the mistress of their father or other relatives.
Prostitution is openly displayed.
Murders and lynch mobs are common in the book.
Should this vile book be kept out of the hands of children?
No matter how they try to explain it, we will never understand,
Cause the thoughts of a woman, can never be understood by a man,
Our minds work different, their method of thinking is quite unique,
Men would be blown away, if we were allowed to take just one peek,
Women won’t allow this to happen, that privilege hasn’t been earned,
But with this letter, I hope to explain all of what I have come to learn,
First we’ll start with the woman, who will surpass almost every other,
The first woman that a man is destined to love, this woman is his mother,
The mother is the most loving, loyal, and the most dedicated to a man,
His trusted advisor, and without her foundation, a man can never stand,
The relationship they establish and the love they share will forever stay,
But this is the first woman in a man’s life that he will push far away,
Not out of angry, but because that’s what she prepared him to do,
This is where we complicated it and introduce woman number two,
This woman can show you that life is worth more than any car or toy,
This woman can also be the one, whose only purpose is to destroy,
This one tricky, this woman can make or break a man’s heart and pride,
You see, this is the woman, that makes us feel all the funny things inside,
A man’s hardest choice is to pick the right woman for him to share his life,
This woman can turn into his worst enemy, best friend, or loving wife,
They’ll tell you that your perfect, then tell you that you have to change,
They can repair your soul, or rip it apart; the risk is at close range,
So either keep your distance or use extreme caution as you proceed,
Yet a man can select this woman to be the one to carry his seed,
The intro to woman number three, comes in light of a daughter,
She teaches the most important lesson, how to become a father,
There have been many before her, but she will mean much more,
The only woman a man doesn’t want to see walk through that door,
So in conclusion I’ll leave you with one final thought in your head,
Love and respect all women, without them you might as well be dead!
thanx for all the great input guys and girls. Yes there are so kinks i have to work out of the poem .. some grammer errors and stuff. To the one who said my style of poems is "outdated" poems are an expression of the soul .. no old .. new .. wrong or right way to write a poem
I am 24 and he is 30. We have been together for a year and a half. He has a 6 year old daughter. We have had a kind of rocky relationship but we were very committed to eachother. We have lived together all but 3 months of that. He asked my Dad if he could marry me two months into our relationship. When we met I was still recovering from an eating disorder and he had just lost his house to foreclosure so we both had struggles. We met at our job. He worked crazy hours because he has split custody of his daughter. So we got a rental house and things were rocky but we loved eachother very much. We were fighting more and more but I didn't know why. I blamed myself alot and always ended up apologizing to him. He never liked to address our problems. He met my family and they loved him. I met his and they were way different from mine.. pretty cold and unwelcoming. But it was okay. I always saw the good in him and he had a big heart. He had his troubles but I always saw the good side to him. And I loved how he had helped me in my recovery and showed me how to live my life as enjoyable as possible. I got pregnant and he seemed okay with it. I was happy though I wished we had waited until we were more stable. He went on a trip to Honduras with me and my extended family. He surprised me and asked my dad if he could marry me and proposed to me. I was so happy and surprised. When we got back we started fighting a lot. I now realize that it was how he talked to me. He wasn't very nice to me. We had my ultrasound to see what we were having and it was a girl. He seemed to be kind of unhappy about that and stopped really acknowledging my pregnancy. He never once did anything to help me while I was pregnant. He would get on to me for doing the laundry wrong and for asking him to clean up after himself in the kitchen. I would cry all the time because he would just be mean and tell me I'm crazy (i was hormonal!) and then ignore me and spend time with his daughter so he didn't have to address our problems. I was isolated and miserable just a few months after our engagement. I was getting more and more frustrated and unhappy. I cried all the time and he'd tell me to leave the house if I was going to do that. It seemed like sex was the only thing we still had. I tried to talk to him but he didn't want to anymore. He blamed me for all of the problems and I believed him.. though it didn't feel right. I was just trying to make it work. I was so good to him. Rubbed his back, cooked, brought him food to work, played with his daughter. He didn't do one thing for me except wash my car (which I could care less about). I kept asking him if he still wanted to be with me which drove him crazy but it really didn't feel right. I even paid for counseling for us. He came two times and I was hopeful that we'd figure it out. Then he threw me a baby shower with both our families. That same day, we had an argument and he called and said he wouldn't be coming home. I was crying and felt desparate. Instead of giving him space I kept telling him to come back and we can make it work. I was hysterical. I stayed with my mom and I got him a new bike I'd been wanting to get him. I thought space would be good. But while I was gone he had a 20 year old girl over and slept with her in my bed, leaving my bedsheets in a heap after he washed them. He avoided me for a whole week and then just said he was done and that he had been 'over me' for a month. I found love poems he had wrote with this girl in my house. He stayed with his sister and had this girl who is a 20year old single mother staying there with him because she just split with the father of her baby. They were waiting there because they thought I would move out of my house and let them take over the lease but I wasn't having that. I wanted him to come back. Finally he got his own place with her and left me with a $1100 lease and bills and hasn't talked to me since. Not about the baby not about how I am not about where I'm staying. I'm devastated and confused. Please give me your opinion. Please don't judge.
If it's too long for you then don't read it. You don't have to comment on it. Please be a little more mature. THank you.
My friends and family told me that I was probably the best girl he had ever had the chance to be with. And I was very good to him. I guess I am not strong enough to demand better for myself yet. But in a way he did love me too... but I guess it was a very immature love. I just was asking him to be there and support me and show me he loved me and he didn't know how to do that. He got tired of me asking for that little bit of support and he left. I felt alone all of the pregnance. The hardest part about letting go is that I still see the good in him and his intentions. I think I may have wanted him to be and saw him as something that he wasn't. I feel stupid. This has been the hardest experience of my short life.
My step-mother was physically and emotionally abusive to me for 14yrs. growing up. I haven't talked to her or my father in nine years but I have alot of hate and have been struggling to move on .I would like to hear feedback on the poem as well as If I should sent it to her ?or just put it in a box ?Please help somehow after all this time I can't let go of this,and it has affected my relationship with my husband of 12yrs. Why is that?
Either way here it is.....
you've hated me so all through my life ,and all you are is my dads newest wife,
you've taken my soul and heart in such a way ,i can't forgive you to this day,
my kids were born with no sight of you, you we're supposed to be part of who they knew.
you took my childhood right out of me, you shoved my face in my own pee,
you took my head and banged it so , i've never hit an all time low,
i bet your power is your drug of choice,i bet it is when hateful actions gave me no voice,
to stop you and all the hurt, you even ripped up my favorite shirt,
you monitored my calls, and told me no, how in the hell was i suppose to grow,
i dropped out just to run from you, getting away was all i could do.
i told mom and you beat me worse, u just wanted me to end up in a hurst..
i bet you never thought with your cheerleading daughters,when i'd be the one to tread water..
i can't keep friends, or the love of my life, again this is to you,my dad's newest wife ,
no wonder why i feel like i'm dying, because im not happy ,I seem to be only crying.
i hate you,but not that you care ,grow a heart if you dare,
take back your actions and words you have said ..
because of you i have lived half dead.
i miss myself ,oh wait i don't know who that is ..all wasn't wasn't one of your kids
but somehow through the pain you've cased in my life ,again all i think of you as is my dads newest wife.
a person with no remorse for anything you've done ,well it starts with me NOW..the battle will be won...
it's gonna be awhile but i refuse to quit, not over you, and yourhatefulatefull PITY ME shit.
you've done enough damage now, i have to let go ....now it's time for me to say ,NO!!!
FINALLY
My father never stood up to her either,he,turned to drugs and alh.-he almost killed both of us when I was 8 my step-mom told him to take "your daughter"me (while) throughly intoxicated and he let his hands off the wheel and wrapped the truck around a telephone pole.
I miss my father and have heard through my half brother he and my grandma his mom are'nt doing well..I just can't bare to face her after all this time
PS. when i copied the poem from my notepad to this site it duplicated some of my words,and left out some .sorry
Thankyou all so much for your feedback this has been really difficult for me and because of that it does feel like "she's winning the battle"
My heart sank once more, fearing another outburst like the day before.
My father walked up to her and embraced her and tried to kiss her lightly upon her forehead but she shrugged him off, scolding him with distaste. He reluctantly withdrew and asked, “How was your sleep, honey?”
She lazily gazed at me and I averted my eyes downward towards the counter.
“Well, I was having a good sleep until you two woke me up,” said mother grumpily glaring at him. “What was with all of the fuss, anyway?”
My father’s eyes flickered my way and I caught his gaze. A small smile pierced the intensity of my lips. He waited until my mother was busy making herself coffee; the soft grinding off coffee beans broke the awkward silence.
He made his funny gesture once more and I laughed.
“Now what is it?” My mother said turning around and glaring at me with utter disgust, as if I was nothing more than gum stuck to the bottom of her shoe.
“Nothing,” I said trying with all of my strength to stifle a laugh.
But I could not as a sudden tidal wave of laughter broke through the seams of my mouth and my father broke into laughter of equal merit. I howled and buried my face into my arms which were crossed upon the counter. My black hair splayed all across my arms creating a tent in which only my face would emerge from.
My mother tapped her fingers on the mahogany counters, pouring her coffee into a golden mug decorated with red roses, letting the steam waft into the air, and then took a sip.
She flustered with agitation and said, “I really do not see what all of the fuss is about, and what are you laughing about Miss Charlene Mae Dawson?”
Her voice rose stifled our laughter, yet the vibrations silhouetted within the echoes still vibrated long after subsiding to a dull whisper.
She glared at me and slammed her coffee mug down against the counter with a loud clank. I peered up from my make-shit tent, still smiling at my father who had cowered in fear of another eruption by my mother who threateningly put her hands on her hips. The small lump in my throat grew hard and painful to swallow.
“Nothing,” I said brushing my bangs away from my eyes.
“Nothing, huh,” said my mother with disbelief. “And what will you be doing today Miss Charlene Mae Dawson, going to the beach and writing another one of your useless poems?”
I said nothing.
Obviously flushed by my resistance for confrontation she continued, “Or will you just sit up in your room doing nothing and wasting your life away while many other’s are out looking for jobs, going to college----“
She swallowed with resentment. My father bowed his head down looking at his feet and murmured, “Honey, please, we are trying to have a peaceful morning and you are just---“
He never got to finish as her chest swelled with frustration, “I am just what Jonathan? Her voice like feet snapping branches in two.
He sighed and continued, “Nothing, look, honey,” grabbing her by the shoulders, “Your constant putting down and arguing over this will not make anything better, why don’t you just focus on giving your daughter the support she needs and stop comparing her to other’s children out there.”
“Do you know how—utterly embarrassing it is to go down to the country club and listen to all of the other women speak about their son’s and daughters, about how they are going off to ivy league schools like Yale, Harvard, Princeton, West Point, amidst a variety of others----“
She paused and said with an even quieter tone,” You can’t imagine how that must feel to know that other’s daughters and sons are going off to college and doing something with their lives and your daughter is just---just---“ She didn’t finish.
My father picked up where she had left off and calmly said, “Is just biding her time and awaiting an opportunity that best suits her. “
“She is my daughter,” said mother chewing the words then spitting them out and tossing his arms aside like rag dolls.
Her face contorted into a sort of ugly grimace. Her eyes glowed with anger and her face began to flash beet red as if it was a warning of a melt down. Her feet remain firmly planted upon the kitchen tile.
I peered up at my father, eyes widened with surprise. He had never spoken out against my mother like that before. I did not know what to say.
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Basically in a nut shell:
Her mother is mad because she didn't graduate has not job all she does is write poetry. Her father is understanding has a great relationship with her daughter mother doesn't. Charlene (daughter) meets a black girl whose dialect is a bit different because she is from the other side of town, she is poor but she did graduate, a clash between two social and economic backgrounds.=]
They change each others lives.
Father learns he has prostate cancer and eventually dies.
She narrates in the end that he does=[
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She is 26 and has a child of her own, her father and me have been dating for almost 4 yrs. Her jealousy resembles that of a child, she dedicates poems, songs to him that talk about daughters instead of dad's, gives him pictures of both, calls herself daddy's little girl... she even went as far as to move two doors down to interrupt our privacy, i've really tried to have a good relationship, kissed her butt basically, but it seems that the happier we are the more jealous she gets.
She says she adores her dad but aren't daughters suppose to be happy for their dad's happiness? she has been disrespectful towards him before for something like him missing her call! and i've stood up for him because he allows her to step all over himI got her dad to stop using drugs, cigarettes, become more healthy. I am younger than her, her dad and I have a 20 + age difference but we have a great relationship and the age isn't an issue at all. His family say i'm the best thing to happen to him- all but her of course. She has stated she hopes we don't have children, she even went as far as to say he didn't love her anymore because he didn't dance with her in a recent wedding ( first time she saw us dance together). I just find this all so unusual- never expected to have to deal with this situation with a grown step-daughter.
she isn't his biological child, can this have anything to do with it. Btw the whole family also thinks she has issues and behaves childish. We live far from her now but even when we saw her recently she acted cold, non-talkative except from the occasional grabbing him for a pic of them together- sometimes she acts more like a jealous girlfriend! HELP!
Mr. Warrior, No- I do not expect her to call her mommy but to respect me and her father. I have tried everything: babysitting for her, giving her advice, money, inviting her for dinner. We actually we're really close once until she accused her father of being a bad dad because she called late at night and he didn't pick up because he was sleeping. I've even gone as far as to tell me when she wants to see her dad for me to get out of the house, just so they don't stop seeing each other! I don't think anyone my age would do that or any other woman for that matter. and I actually move out of my country without my family or friends for her dad and went into a serious depression. He doesn't have any $$$ so money isn't the issue.
Ok. It’s a long story, but I need serious guidance on this issue. I need to include as many details as I can because they all contribute to this issue. Ok. This past valentines day I asked an old friend of mine on a date. We had know each other for over four years, all through out high school, but it had take me that long to build up the nerve to finally ask her out. Part of it was her ex-boyfriend. They were together for almost a year and were obviously in love. I didn’t want to interfere with that. She had gotten pregnant during this time, and I was in military school so we weren’t talking much. They broke up several month after the baby was born, because she found out she was cheating on him. Ok, so she had a 5 month old child when we went on this date and we ended up getting really close that night. We had sex, and I don’t know how because we had just started talking again. We just kind of connected and it happened. We started dating and we became really close to each other. She says its crazy but she feel more in love with me and cared for me more than she ever did here ex in such a short period of time. I started getting close to, and then I got scared. I didn’t know if I was ready to be a father or handle any of this, so I turned away. I started talking to another girl, and I thought to myself, “It would just be easier to go with her.” I wasn’t dating her, and I told her I didn’t know if I wanted to give up this girl I really cared for her, but then I accidentally sent a text meant for her to the girl I was dating, and I admit I had told my girlfriend I had stop talking to this other girl. So, we broke up, enviably, and I started dating this other girl. My ex also started dating someone else. It just didn’t feel right, it was like I was trying to fill a gap with the wrong person, and I became jealous of this other guy my ex was seeing, something that had never happened before. Over time my ex and I started talking again, after I had said some really ugly things to her, we became close again, and I tried to win her back. Over time I did and we started dating again. And she tried to leave me several times but I wrote her dozens of poems and several songs and brought her flowers and feel in love with her and her daughter and even her family. I became attached to all of them. We became close again, and a few weeks ago, I propose. It’s seemed things were headed in the right direction and she was beginning to show me love and affection again. Then our problems started mounting. She didn’t want to have sex again; I did because I thought it would make her feel close to me again, and make her love me again. Instead, after having it several times, she told me that she was only giving it to me to shut me up, and that she hated having sex now, and regretted ever giving it to me in the first place because we weren’t ready. That’s true, we weren’t, and we won’t be for awhile. Then, more recently, she stopped texting me, telling me that she loves me, or saying sweet things to me. She was starting to again, but just suddenly stopped this past week. I asked her why, and she told me it would take her time to let me in again. Her ex had hurt her, I had hurt her, her family and especially her father had hurt he since she had her daughter. I asked to many questions I guess, and she told me she just wasn’t affectionate anymore and when she was her ex and I walked all over her. She said it may take a year it may take twelve years, to start showing the affection that I wanted and she didn’t even know if she could ever love me like she did. After we talked for awhile I told I felt like I tried so hard but it was all for nothing because she just turned away from me again. Then she told me she just didn’t want to do this anymore. She said being in a relationship was too hard being a teenage mother, being a full time college student, working a job on weekends, and being hurt as much as she had. She pointed out I was going off to college and I would meet new girls there, and “she knew how I was.” She broke up with me, after it all, and I’ve never been hurt like this before. I’m insanely in love with her, and I would give anything just to be with her again and feel loved like I was. I screwed it up by leaving the first time and not a SINGLE day goes by that I don’t regret what I’ve done. She says she still loves me more than anything but her daughter, if not as much as she id before, but she can’t deal with me right know and wants to be alone. She says she doesn’t have the energy to work at a relationship. I want to be with her again and her to love me like she did. Is there anything I can do or do I just have to leave it all to time and fate to decide?
I didn't actually mean to alliterate. I just did a mock at home but I really don't get the mark scheme, literature exam soon and panicking!!
I don't think I answered the second question as well.
Compare how memories are presented in homecoming and before you were mine
Compare how attitudes to loved ones are presented in two poems from pre 1914
Both’ homecoming’ and ‘before you were mine’ are similar in the fact that they are primarily presenting another persons memories rather than those of the narrators. In ‘Homecoming’ ‘it’s sixteen years or so’ before the narrator and the character being portrayed meet and in ‘before you were mine’ it’s the daughter describing her mum’s life before she was born.
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Homecoming > argument in second stanza presented through childish mind > colours ‘red’, ‘yellow’ and ‘blue’ are used to show how vivid memories can be when experienced through child etc . shows also how simple children see world
Memory in homecoming used as microcosm of all family disputes. Used to show how lucky we are to have a relationship that’s too strong to break with anything. Armitage used another layer, ‘excersize in trust’ to show this. Connecting the memories ending with trust.
Before you were mine > describing mums youth after photo . positive shiny language
Structure = neat and ordered = like a photo album
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Memories in both these poems are presented to portray the poets opinions on the subject. In homecoming Armitage uses a childs memory of an argument to show the loving nature of a family household and tried to persuade the reader to appreciate that gift. The canary yellow jacket ‘still fits’ after the argument over it. This is a metaphor of how the child and parents still trusted each other after the argument because of their strong, emotional connection. In before you were mine the memories her daughter imagined her mum to have are used to show the extent of sacrifices mothers everywhere make after having children
The poems on my first sonne and sonnet 130 are completely devoid of passion. This is expected in Ben Jonsons poem as it’s about the death of his son and how his love for him is causing him an immense amount of pain. This is suprising in shakespeares love sonnet, though, as typical love sonnets try and strengthen the existence of passion in the relationhip they are trying to describe
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Sonnet 130 > unflattering quote > shocking as contradicticts love poetry rules etc > reader assumes not love poem > rhyming coupet at end show Shakespeare actually does love mistress ‘quote’ he’s saying he loves as much as any couple who shower each other with false praises > believe he’s emphasizing how perfection or belief in perfection is not important in love , he believes love does not depend on fantasy and passion > ‘the goddess quote’ > he appreciates mistress and his love for they exist
One my first sonne > contrary to sonnet 130’s hidden positive tone > describes grief over love one > ‘sinne was too…’ > his positive emotions towards boy make him gloomy now
‘lose all father’ > lose faith in god > big deal for people back then > love changed his mindset
‘will man lament…’ > debates existence of grief > logical > did not comfort him though because of
‘rhyming couplet at end’ > strengthens presentation of emotions > shows he doesn’t want to love again etc
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Whilst Sonnet 130 has an underlying message to it, one my first sonne is just a poem that expresses the poets emotions. Shakespeare in sonnet 130 is bashing superficiality and reliance of fantasy in loving relationships using his love for his mistress as an example. Ben Jonson uses words such as ‘lament’ and ‘misery’ to depict how strong his grief for his son is. By doing this he is showing how much he loved his son.
THANK YOU!!!!!!!
Peace & Hatred
Peace is a natural occurrence, when God made the Earth he put it everywhere,
He sprinkled some peace on us, to share it with the world,
Peace is with us, he sprinkled it on each strand of our hair.
He sprinkled some peace in a bluebird’s beak, to help her create a melodious tune,
He sprinkled some peace in the sky, where did you think the stars came from?
He sprinkled some peace on the beach, sprinkled peace all over the sand dunes.
God sprinkled peace on a dying infant, her eyes opened and she never passed away,
He sprinkled it on a feuding mother and daughter and there relationship became stronger than ever,
God sprinkled some peace on fighting children and they stopped fighting and started to play.
Peace is sprinkled all around us; we just have to keep an eye out for it,
When all seems wrong we witness a miracle of God’s peace,
We just can’t give up, because if we all do, we will lose all of earth’s peace bit by bit.
Sadly, hatred is also sprinkled just about everywhere,
It has been sprinkled everywhere, but not sprinkled by God; sprinkled by humanity,
It reminds us of ours sins, and more is sprinkled every year.
Hatred is sprinkled in the tears of a child abused by her father,
It is sprinkled in the blood of a wounded soldier,
It is sprinkled in a starving puppy left on the streets not feed, because no one would bother.
Hatred and peace is sprinkled throughout this world,
But we need to sweep up the hatred,
And have the peace unfurled.
I wrote it in lewss than a half an hour this morning for a peace poetry contest for school. I had to enter because its our homework for language arts ut i couldn't do it last night because I was sick and wasn't in a poetry mood, is it any good, what would you change about it?
haha all my friends said it sucks, jw i already passed it in anyways
One of my friend's (shes 13)
Dad just got out of Prison a couple days ago,
He has been in there since she was 7 (so six years ago)
and she wrote, this- and wants to know what you guys think?
______________________________________...
I sat here six years
Waiting for the perfect daddy
But in those six years
I realized something
Even if I waited and got him
It would not be the same
Every one else grew up with
Their perfect dad
Why was I the only one?
Who had to wait?
No matter what,
I’ll always love you
You know that is true
But though I’ll always love you
I’ll never really know you for you
You were gone most of my life
You were the one who left me feeling blue
When they finally told me,
You were going to arrive
Even though I was happy
I felt a bit deprived
Did I really want,
Some stranger in my life?
No matter what,
I’ll always love you
You know that is true
But though I’ll always love you
I’ll never really know you for you
You were gone most of my life
You were the one who left me feeling blue
And so I sit
In my room locked away
Thinking how so long ago
I yearned for this day
And so I want to know
If you feel the same
Do you, like me
Think it will never be the same
As those kids in my class
Who always had
That perfect dad…
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So what dou you think?
I told her she should give it to him, but she wants other pplz opinions.
I agree its not PERFECT
but it comes frome the heart :)
We arent trying to make him feel bad, but its cuz she wants him to know how she feels-shes not just trying to tell him that its not gonna ever be the same, shes also trying to say that even though its obvious that they arent gonna have that perfect father daughter relationship she still loves him after everything he did to hher when she was little (he was abusive to her and her mother)
5 friends
First there were 5 of us,
Together like a herd,
Then time swept us away,
We drifted apart as a boat drifts at sea,
2 found their way together,
3 went on.
School starts up,
Life together is no more,
We all wonder if we will pass each other,
Share a kind smile,
But at the end of the day,
We all know it will be nothing more than a smile,
But we will always have that memory of the warmth we once shared.
Things seem close,
But as the bell rings,
They crumble to nothing,
Thoughts about our future as one,
Float around our minds,
New people try to fill these spaces,
The empty square in our hearts.
What corrections should i make?
What do u think of it?
Father-Daughter
A close bond,
Inspiration,
Uplift,
Two people as close as paper and glue.
Love,
Caring,
Lasted for years.
Boom,
Divorce,
That father-daughter relationship ripped by another human’s hands.
Now betrayal,
Only lies,
Excuses,
Filling the air as quick as smoke.
Her life hardening,
A young girl learning only to be forgotten,
“Do this for me, you need to sacrifice”,
Words she was told.
No is only a word,
Feeling’s mean nothing,
Being told she’s not worth it,
Looking to friends for care,
They too have forgotten her,
Her feelings,
Life hardships.
No father,
No friends,
Family meaning everything.
Mom and brothers,
Three not under a spell,
Respecting and helping her.
One year has gone away,
Deeper the hole,
Stronger the girls soul.
This young girl learned copping skills,
How to stand for what she needs,
Knowing NO is not just a word.
Any corrections?
~Catherine Zembrelle Parrish
PLEASE DON"T TAKE CREDIT FOR MY WORK
5 friends
First there were 5 of us,
Together like a herd,
Then time swept us away,
We drifted apart as a boat drifts at sea,
2 found their way together,
3 went on.
School starts up,
Life together is no more,
We all wonder if we will pass each other,
Share a kind smile,
But at the end of the day,
We all know it will be nothing more than a smile,
But we will always have that memory of the warmth we once shared.
Things seem close,
But as the bell rings,
They crumble to nothing,
Thoughts about our future as one,
Float around our minds,
New people try to fill these spaces,
The empty square in our hearts.
What corrections should i make?
What do u think of it?
Father-Daughter
A close bond,
Inspiration,
Uplift,
Two people as close as paper and glue.
Love,
Caring,
Lasted for years.
Boom,
Divorce,
That father-daughter relationship ripped by another human’s hands.
Now betrayal,
Only lies,
Excuses,
Filling the air as quick as smoke.
Her life hardening,
A young girl learning only to be forgotten,
“Do this for me, you need to sacrifice”,
Words she was told.
No is only a word,
Feeling’s mean nothing,
Being told she’s not worth it,
Looking to friends for care,
They too have forgotten her,
Her feelings,
Life hardships.
No father,
No friends,
Family meaning everything.
Mom and brothers,
Three not under a spell,
Respecting and helping her.
One year has gone away,
Deeper the hole,
Stronger the girls soul.
This young girl learned copping skills,
How to stand for what she needs,
Knowing NO is not just a word.
~Catherine Zembrelle Parrish
PLEASE DON"T TAKE CREDIT FOR MY WORK
A good friend of mine just lost her father. She had a very turbulent relationship with him when he was alive. He was verbally abusive, poor role model, and most of the time a drug addict. Nevetheless, she loves him dearly and he is her father. She is struggling really hard with this as most people around her think she shouldn't waste her time. I really want to send her a nice card, poem, saying something to let her know that eventhough things werent always ideal for them, loving him and missing him is okay, and that she has a friend who understands. Any suggestions?
I wrote my bio dad a letter pouring my heart out, telling him all about me. I looked up his info on the internet and found his address and mailed it to him. Two months later, I receive a letter from him but it sounds odd, it sounds rehearsed as I am reading, no real emotion, nothing about him. I look up some of the lines on the internet only to find out that it is a poem. Yes, he copied and pasted a poem about daughters into a letter (in his handwriting) and sent it to me . I haven't spoken to him in years and I get a letter back with nothing original; nothing about where he has been the last 25 years, nothing about why he left, no I am sorry, but instead pasted lyrics from a Hallmark greeting card. What should my next move be? Send him a copy of the link? Should I be mad? or Should I be happy he responded? I have had little to no contact over the span of 25 years. I am 32, a doctor, happily married, but thought that I would track him down and extend an invitation to build a relationship. I am not sure as to whether or not to be mad, happy he responsed, disappointed, etc. Any suggestions.
He signed it "Your best friend" WTF? A man I never knew and he calls himself my best friend. I don't even know what that means or how to even begin processing that. No, "I love you; I am sorry I left; sorry I missed out" Just a pasted poem and then signed, Your BFF. WTF?
I saw the lyrics to holly dunn's - daddy's hands but, are there any other songs besides this one that speak about a daughter and father relationship. Could plz send me the lyrics to Daddy's Hands as well as any others that may be suitable for making a scrapbook pg. for my friend. Her dad past away about 2 yrs. ago and her b-day along with her wedding is coming up as well and I'd like to do a special tribute pg so, she can have it for her b-day as well as her wedding day that way he's there with her in spirit though he's perished he'll still be with her through an " IN LOVING MEMORY" kinda way. can you help me out ? Otherwise, I'll make up my own poem.either way I'd like some options to view before a final decision is made. Thanks to everyone in advance. take care
sorry for the ambiguous paragraph breaks. Thesis is: Debussy's experimentations and unconventional ways have revolutionized the art of music, influencing many later composers and sparking new forms of music such as jazz.
Thesis is: Debussy's experimentation and unconventional ways have revolutionized the art of music, influecning many later composers and sparking new forms of music such as jazz
To My Father.
Who are you? Where is the father I knew?
I don't like the person you've became.
Where is the father who puts HIS kids first?
The one who I knew a few years ago.
The one who wouldn't let some woman ruin his life
or his relationship with his OWN daughters?
Most of the stuff you don't like about me is cause
YOUR the reason why I do or done it, the cutting &
the smoking,all cause of YOU.
The poem you read "Why?" was about YOU!
Most of the stuff thats wrong with me is cause of YOU!
You may not like some of the stuff I do or done,
cause you can't handle the fact that your
YOUNGEST daughter is growing up.
Your almost 45 years old & you act like your 21 again.
Its time to act your age.
Sometimes I feel like I can say that
I don't have a father cause
YOU don't hardly act like one.
And the reason why I NEVER say I love u
is cause I DON'T KNOW WHO YOU ARE ANYMORE!!
If you want to read more of my poems. Then e-mail me and I'll send then to you..
Thank You.
I don't talk to my father anymore. He calls my moms house all the time wanting to talk to him and I just don't have anything to say to him.. And I've sent the poem to him.. I mean He will understand this because I've wrote poems before and he liked them.
I lived with my dad for about 2 years and he treated me like his SLAVE.. and now that he has a girlfriend/wife, he doesn't want anything to do with his OWN girls.. My dad gets drunk like every night and his girlfriend/wife is a pothead and a crack head.. For the past 2 or 3 years my dad has changed into someone that I wish I never knew.
I don't cut myself anymore. I done it when I lived with my dad because I was depressed and is calmed me down from hitting other people...
Here is the first poem I wrote to him.
Why?
Why do you make me do this?
Why do you always have to act like this?
Why did you do this 2 me?
Why do you blame me?
Why do you always make me the bad kid in the family?
You Always ask why do i do this shit and I say because
of you and you never believed me until I really done it and
every time I'm around you I want to cry. You act like you don't
even know me.You always find a way 2 make
me cry...Why do you always do this 2 ME do it 2 someone
else because you make me feel hated and not wanted
in this world, and u make me feel like i'm not your
child...
Why this?
Why now?
Why Me?
Why?
Can you hear me
Can you hear my cries
Can you see the tears
Can you see that you hurt me
Do you remember the days you left us
Do you remember the days i begged you to stay
When will you realize the mistakes you made
You helped to bring us into this world
But after that you were hardly around
There were other things more important
We never meant much
But we loved you even when you hurt us
It took mom 24 years to realize
She could do better
Our lives are changing
And your still not around much
You know you hurt us
And we know that you didnt care
Once in our lives it would be nice
Nice to know that we can rely on you
Just once would i like my dad to be there
One time to know that my dad cares for me
Yeah, your trying now
But I've been in this world for 15 years
And its taken you this long to come around
When will i be able to rely on you each day
Where will our father-daughter relationship be in a year
I would like to think that my wedding day will be special
Dad, you hurt us when you hurt mom
It hurt to know that we just weren't good enough somedays.
It sucked to know that you had to cheat in order to feel "good"
I hate knowing each day you go home from work
And see my half sister and a kid who isnt even yours
But what i hate more is knowing our family has grown apart, and we will never ever be the same
It contains a story of a man who gets drunk and impregnates both of his daughters after his wife dies.
There are incidents of people eating their own children.
Children are sacrificed on an altar to a god.
Animals are ritually sacrificed.
Two of the men seem to have a homo-erotic relationship and one states to the other that 'your love far exceeds that of a woman'.
The book also contains many occult practices, such as divination, conjuring, and speaking with the dead.
There is a bizarre poem about incest with a man's underage sister, and comments about horse semen.
The book also openly promotes slavery and polygamy, and the keeping of royal brothels?
Several times, characters in the book have sex with their step-mothers or the mistress of their father or other relatives.
Prostitution is openly displayed.
Murders and lynch mobs are common in the book.
Should this vile book be kept out of the hands of children?
No matter how they try to explain it, we will never understand,
Cause the thoughts of a woman, can never be understood by a man,
Our minds work different, their method of thinking is quite unique,
Men would be blown away, if we were allowed to take just one peek,
Women won’t allow this to happen, that privilege hasn’t been earned,
But with this letter, I hope to explain all of what I have come to learn,
First we’ll start with the woman, who will surpass almost every other,
The first woman that a man is destined to love, this woman is his mother,
The mother is the most loving, loyal, and the most dedicated to a man,
His trusted advisor, and without her foundation, a man can never stand,
The relationship they establish and the love they share will forever stay,
But this is the first woman in a man’s life that he will push far away,
Not out of angry, but because that’s what she prepared him to do,
This is where we complicated it and introduce woman number two,
This woman can show you that life is worth more than any car or toy,
This woman can also be the one, whose only purpose is to destroy,
This one tricky, this woman can make or break a man’s heart and pride,
You see, this is the woman, that makes us feel all the funny things inside,
A man’s hardest choice is to pick the right woman for him to share his life,
This woman can turn into his worst enemy, best friend, or loving wife,
They’ll tell you that your perfect, then tell you that you have to change,
They can repair your soul, or rip it apart; the risk is at close range,
So either keep your distance or use extreme caution as you proceed,
Yet a man can select this woman to be the one to carry his seed,
The intro to woman number three, comes in light of a daughter,
She teaches the most important lesson, how to become a father,
There have been many before her, but she will mean much more,
The only woman a man doesn’t want to see walk through that door,
So in conclusion I’ll leave you with one final thought in your head,
Love and respect all women, without them you might as well be dead!
thanx for all the great input guys and girls. Yes there are so kinks i have to work out of the poem .. some grammer errors and stuff. To the one who said my style of poems is "outdated" poems are an expression of the soul .. no old .. new .. wrong or right way to write a poem
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