Comments on: Calm Yourselves, Children

By: Sister Wolf

Sister Wolf — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 20:22:57 +0000

Renee -Sorry for the delay, I just saw your comment. Thank you for your support! Some idiot just wrote to me to explain why I am a narcissist. I think this word has taken over from sexist and racist as the insult du jour.

By: Renee

Renee — Sat, 01 Jul 2017 20:22:17 +0000

I’ve never once thought of you as a narcissist. You are honest.

By: Suspended

Suspended — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 22:11:54 +0000

I don’t think I’m better, just lazier, Sis. Avoidance takes effort and it’s much harder when you’ve produced their only Grandchild.

My Brother is great at it, the avoidance part, so much so, that I’m left with the guilt of taking up the slack. God, that sounds a bit martyr-ish. I’d never begrudge him his freedom.

Yesterday I had to put up with my Mum reading my Tarot to see if my passport will arrive on time for the flight I have booked on the 5th. This, despite the fact the passport office has told me I have no chance in hell. She sent my wife the results via text (she doesn’t have my number.) Stop! was my first word when my wife tried to relay some of my Mum’s shite. How can you even read cards that someone hasn’t chosen? I don’t know how such foolery works but there’s no way it’s taking up a minute of my time.

My wife has said to me on occasion “Wow, you really turned out quite normal, all things considered.” It felt like a compliment to be, however fractionally, disassociated from them.

By: Sister Wolf

Sister Wolf — Tue, 20 Jun 2017 05:07:41 +0000

Suspended – You are a better man than I, as we all know by now. Putting up with your parents at this point is so good of you, because you don’t have to do it. You can just opt out. I refused to deal with my parents for years, because they made me feel so terrible. I just boycotted them until they were dying. I wish I could have been more compassionate with my mother, and less compassionate with my father.

In the end, they both got even with me in their wills.

I’ll help you move!

By: Sister Wolf

Sister Wolf — Tue, 20 Jun 2017 05:01:07 +0000

helen waite – I don’t think you need to shove it anywhere, but Romeo has strong feelings. Portrait of the Artist was really great. It was a strong influence in my youth. As for those reddit boards, it seems like a real vortex of misery and blame. I need to stay away from it.

By: Suspended

Suspended — Mon, 19 Jun 2017 22:00:00 +0000

Narcissist, my arse! You are a writer, and a bloody good one at that. Reddit is a place for arseholes to console arseholes. Most of them just need a good shower and some daylight.

I don’t blame my parents for being anything other than infuriatingly annoying. Sure, I experienced some shit growing up but I put them through some shit too. Odds we’re even.

I saw my Dad six days out of seven last week. The seventh day was Father’s Day and by that point in the week I couldn’t even bear to speak to him on the phone. It’s crosses my mind from time to time, how many months could actually pass before I’d bother to contact them? My Mum is looking for a house near us…we may need to move. She imagines a life, based on other people’s Facebook posts, where we all live happily ever after. If I’m in a good mood, I can take about two hours of her before my blood starts to boil. My Father comes for lunch every Saturday…whether we like it or not. He’s so fucking tiring. I think they’re ageing me. Yeah, I blame them for ageing me…I’m off to start a support group on Reddit.

By: helen waite

helen waite — Mon, 19 Jun 2017 18:24:24 +0000

SW: What’s C of D ?
Romeo: I’ve read Ulysses . Do I really have to shove it in at all, much less sideways? Why?
(fwiw: I loved “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” and “The Dubliners” far more.)

– I’m a CoN and it can really make me feel better at darker times when I can unburden a/o exchange experiences with others. I fckn loathe the PoCoN who redditize about their children that ‘seem to hate them” , are “selfish” etc.

By: Sister Wolf

Sister Wolf — Sat, 17 Jun 2017 20:44:16 +0000

Romeo – Hahahahaha re Ulysses! I guess you can read C of D now. I don’t remember why I said not to. Maybe I can’t be trusted any more.

Madame Restora – Better to just blame genetics if you need to assign blame.

By: Madam Restora

Madam Restora — Sat, 17 Jun 2017 08:35:56 +0000

How convenient it must be to have parents who were less than perfect so they can bear the blame for every way life has failed you (not you SW). I’m of the belief that once past the age of 30 it becomes a bit pathetic to continue to blame your problems on your parents.

By: Romeo

Romeo — Sat, 17 Jun 2017 00:45:15 +0000

I thought you told me NOT to read that book.

Also: happy Bloomsday, everyone who’s managed to read Ulysses! Take your copy and jam it in sideways!