Posted on 02/11/2017 1:39:32 PM PST by NRx
I think you rock for the record ma’am
War daddy - you are such a flirt! A charming flirt!
Yeah, the part about him embarrassing his family and his country for being admitted to a mental ward while he was in the service was inappropriate. Mental illness is an illness, I’m sure the guy didn’t ask to be sick. Sheesh.
I hope he did make his peace with God. In any case, it’s in God’s hands. I believe that God would also understand such an obit, even if it’s wrong. They now, however, must move on and forgive, which is probably only now possible, since the obviously nasty man is dead.
I’ve got a child with anxiety disorders
I love her to death
She would rather not be that way
Nobody would
So not Northern Irish eh?
I’m kind of thinking she wouldn’t pour boiling water on her spouse, and that she hasn’t been jailed for assaults over the years.
Not in any way comparable to the dead thug whose unlamented demise incited the obituary.
I was replying to fishtank.
I was being sarcastic.
I was replying to post #28.
“I think you rock for the record ma’am”
*blushing* Thank you.
Actually that is not true. Kennedy went home, showered and got dressed then went down to the hotel lobby at a very early hour to ask for the time. Most people surmise this was an attempt to establish an alibi. Edward Kennedy was a bad male.
It’s not gay, it’s not ridiculous, and it is actually freeing. For reasons I put into the next few sentences which you apparently couldn’t be bothered to understand.
Not at all. Mental illnesses that can be diagnosed can be dealt with, if the deceased couldn’t be bothered to deal with them to the detriment of his children then he was low down and should have it pointed out.
I think it really is because those who grew up in a functional family simply have no frame of reference. Dysfunctional families put so much effort into hiding their dysfunction, we’re like a secret society or an alien species. We simply live in a different version of reality. I get that a lot when I show my reluctance to deal with my mother, she’s not full fledged toxic, but her brand of insanity is very aggravating, I get to hear all the ways she’s self sabotaged lately knowing the only thing I can do about it is not get sucked into that vortex. And then those weekend plan discussions come up with friends or co-workers and I’m all “yeah I gotta go do stuff with mom this weekend” and you can immediately spot the functional and dysfunctional backgrounds in the audience, there’s the confused “but she’s your mother” looks, and the understanding “good luck” looks. And I just can’t explain it to the confused section, “but she’s your mother” is so sacrosanct to them that they can’t see that she also spend 2 decades sabotaging my life and I’ve had to completely retrain my thinking to avoid the bad habits she instilled and in many ways being with her is like an alcoholic visiting a beer festival.
Oh well, they’re lucky to not get it. I sure wouldn’t mind being that kind of ignorant.
The guy might have been evil but this lacks class.
Exactly.
Exactly right.
The person like this in my family was an abusive monster. He was skilled at personal relationships when he wanted to be and was universally regarded outside the family as a wonderful person.
Only people inside the family saw his true face and supported him in his public face.
They continued this charade until he died and kept the secret inside the family.
I imagine that telling the truth could indeed be liberating.
I wonder how many people who feel entitled to judge the family that wrote that obituary have the experience of being serially tortured by a monster. If not, please go experience that for a few decades and then get back to us.
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