I’ve realized over the last day or so that I’m really fucking pissed at my parents that they have gone more than six months without seeing the boys. WTF? Kiel wasn’t even three months old the last time they saw him, now he’s nine months and almost walking! Noah is starting kindergarten in a little over a week. They know nothing about his excitement. How dare they ignore my children like that!?!
My therapist (duh, like you didn’t know I had one) has tried to prepare me for this trip. She has tried to help me lower my expectations; to accept the “good enough.” To turn off the fantasy in my head of how I want my parents to behave.
It’s going to be hard. I’m not very good at keeping my emotions to myself. I want to tell them that I am hurt. Yet I know it will not do me any good. They will have excuses. Or they will turn it around to be my fault. That I was bitchy to them. That they thought I was mad at them. That I didn’t invite them to visit.
I know it is their loss. It really is. I have some fucking awesome kids!
But I still can’t stop wishing they would become the grandparents I want them to be. Perhaps just a new version of wishing they would be the parents to me I always dreamed of?
already tell you going to visit is bringing up a lot of feelings, emotions and expectations. It can be tough. My mother in law lives in the same town as us and only town light away and she will go months without seeing my son.. WTF? I never realized I wasn't alone in my feelings. I wont even mention my parents.
ReplyDeletethis is like a horror flick I know the ending to and yet can't help but watch it...i just wish it had a better ending.
ReplyDeleteI so hope that you know that all you can control is you being the kind of mommy they need. That's it. And you rock it every day.
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