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Picture yourself spending some time with congenial friends, sharing your lives and pictures from your cell phones." They're curious about that cool game, song, movie, camping trip, art show, or other event that fascinated you. You talk about all kinds of stuff, poetry, styles, personal achievements, relationships, and bad days. You can share your inner child, and laugh together. They sympathetically listen to your feelings about serious topics like politics or climate change, even when they don't agree.

Personal validation comes from paying attention to one another, giving more than you get. Everyone respects you and themselves, despite our amazing range of personal tastes and interests. They'll tell you they don't agree with an idea or behavior without implying you're a bad person or somehow deficient. It's an "I'm OK, You're OK" kind of fellowship, where nobody tries to make himself look better by picking on somebody else.

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Girl Recovered After 10 Years Claimed Dead by Psychic

Started by Steph S.. Last reply by Lillie 37 minutes ago. 9 Replies 0 Likes

Psychics are all BS.Here's an interesting news article.Amanda Berry, a…Continue

Life offers many opportunities for health and flourishing

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Life offers many opportunities for health and flourishing and our bodies have all kinds of red flags it sends up to tell us something is wrong. Pay attention to those flags, they can save your health and your life. I talked to a lady yesterday who…Continue

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Oklahoma Tornado

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What are your Memorial Day plans?

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I just wanted to make a fun discussion and see what all of you are doing on Memorial Day.Anyone attending a parade?Anyone honoring vets?Here is an event in Austin that looks very interesting to me.Austin, TXClose Assault 1944 is living history and…Continue

'Crazy ants' a threat in southern U.S.

Started by Steph S.. Last reply by Lillie on Sunday. 8 Replies 1 Like

Oh no! Crazy ants!!CNN) -- Beware the "crazy…Continue

10 Things You Can't Do and Become President

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Comment by John Lynch on January 10, 2013 at 7:04am: Chris I to use exercise to help with depression. After some time my children and I are on good terms. I also do not think I was ever a good candidate for marriage. It would have been nice to have that knowledge before the act. Peace to all.

Comment by Chris Breman on January 10, 2013 at 5:06am: It's bad when things cannot be mended. I was the unwanted daughter of a sexist, hypocrit xtian, who ruined his wife & children's lives. You cannot reason with someone who thinks he's is always right, so I broke the contact and didn't go to his funeral.

Comment by Ian Mason on January 10, 2013 at 4:12am: Congratulations to the happily married. It's a real achievement.

As far as the drunk/bad-tempered/intoverted fathers go - that was me for far too many years. I haven't been able to regain my daughter's affection and probably never will. There was too much shit for too long. Have also recognised that marriage etc. is not the best thing for me. I'm too unstable and that only causes distress for both parties.

My addiction now is exercise. It burns off the excess cortisol (the "bad" stress hormone) and stabilises my moods to some extent. Chocolate is good too but I need to ration myself, otherwise I go wild.

Have a great day, all of you, wherever you are and whatever you're doing. Thanks for listening. Hugs from me.

Comment by Joan Denoo on January 10, 2013 at 2:16am: Melinda, Congratulations on 25 years of marriage, 2 great kids and if I were closer I could bring you a bouquet of Witchhazel. It is in full bloom and the only thing in color just now. I love its fragrance.

Comment by Lillie on January 9, 2013 at 8:48pm: Maybe the cannonball dive was some kind of yoga position.

Comment by booklover on January 9, 2013 at 7:22pm: I love the cannonball dive cat Steph! :)

Comment by Steph S. on January 9, 2013 at 5:13pm

Comment by Steph S. on January 9, 2013 at 5:12pm: I just read your story about your dad sk8eycat - thank you so much for sharing with us.

Cute doglol booklover - thank you for sharing your story with us.

Wow - so much to read today. I am getting caught up.

You aren't boring Melinda. You have a nice peaceful life. Sounds wonderful to me.

Sorry to hear about your drunk dad John. Appreciate your sharing.

Ashley thanks for sharing your story about your dad with us.

I don't drink alcohol myself.

Enjoying the conversation here.

Wonderful to see all the sharing.

Comment by booklover on January 9, 2013 at 4:40pm: Hi Ashley! Glad you're joining in the conversation! Actually I just found that dog pic on the internet, but I thought it was cute! My dog is a Black Lab and she doesn't chase her tail.

I think my body-chemistry just isn't made for alcohol. Not a bad thing! I spent my childhood trying to avoid my step-dad's temper, although he didn't drink, he just had a bad temper. That's why when he and my Mom got divorced when I was 17, all I felt was relief.

I'm sorry about what you had to go through during your childhood. I don't know of anyone having an idealistic childhood, but I sure as heck tried my best for my kids to have one.

Join in the conversation more often!~ Melinda

Comment by Ashley West on January 9, 2013 at 3:53pm: Hello, everyone. This is my first time commenting on here but once I saw this I just wanted to share something. My dad was an alcoholic before I was even born, and my childhood was spent trying to avoid his temper, or any other dangerous positions he decided to try and put me in. Thankfully my mom left him before he could do any serious damage to me. Like you, Melinda, I cannot tolerate alcohol very well myself these days. I don't know if its a physical reaction to the memory of my father or if I just really can't handle it but it always makes me sick. I know the feeling of growing up and starting to drink too just to try and cope with the other people around you that are doing it, but it just makes the situation worse. At least for me it does.

I am glad for those that have had the problem that have gotten themselves help. It's very hard to overcome, or so it seems with my family.

By the way, Melinda, that is the cutest picture. My dog used to chase his tail all the time but I don't think he ever caught it. ;-)