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Shadows of our Fathers - Part IV - Bitterness
Contributed by: Kevin Platts   on 8/14/2007

So, I grew up, got married and then moved away from my family as quickly as I could. I know now that I was simply running and it probably wasn't the smartest thing to do, but it felt right at the time, so I did it.

I was a bitter, bitter person. As I grew older and had kids of my own, I would often wonder how and why my parents did the things they did.

I didn't really know my grandparents, so I never really had any evidence showing whether my parents came from loving homes or not. Rather than giving them the benefit of the doubt, I decided to hold in my resentment.

It was almost as if I was estranged from my own parents. I would occasionally go home and visit, but would never talk about my childhood. I simply didn't want to go through it all over again.

As you can imagine, this begins to wear on one's sole. It was a heavy burden for me to carry around for 20 years. Eventually, the burden became too much for me to handle.

Rather than carrying around the bitterness and resentment, I instead chose to simply ignore it. I basically decided it wasn't worth worrying about anymore.

In the short-term this really seemed to help, but as you can imagine, it didn't really resolve any of the issues I had with my parents. It just resulted in the problems being buried. Not a good long-term solution.

Eventually, I got to the point where a more realistic solution to the problem needed to be identified and then enacted. More to follow.

To read my other thoughts, please visit my blog at: www.advice-smoke-and-mirrors.blogspot.com


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Kevin Platts

Parker , CO

Kevin Platts has posted 178 blog entries and 5 comments since joining on 5/16/2006. Kevin Platts's average blog rating is 4.8.
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