Posts by rainy32

Fiathstuff! oh I know what you mean about mourning and wondering how exactly you'll live without the OCD behaviors! I have spent the last month just watching how often I go into OCD behavior - and its stunning how much of my life is...

OK - trying to post again, lol Thank you all for your responses. Our field trip for today (10 - 1 or so!) the public library for kids, parents, and power struggles -- and a walk through the park between the library and the best vegan...

I keep loosing my (long!) response to this wonderful advice.... this is a test post, if it works, i'll reply again.

thank you all!! yes ... lol, and shameful ... i threw water on him. NOT my finest moment. everyone who suggests that it is a power struggle is absolutely right!! and, sparklefairy, I do imagine him, as a grown up man, treating a...

All - I have a four 1/2 year old boy. he is lovely and wonderful. except for between the hours of 11 and 1. i am sure it is hunger related. i am sure it is a need to get out of the house on both of our parts. but knowing that...

I had my first therapy appointment this Monday. It was really LONG - a true intake appointment, I guess, and interesting. We did the whole crazy family history stuff, and talked about my concerns for dh, my disappointment with the fact...

thanks, surfacing, for the hugs and kind words. dh is a recovering alcoholic, active in a 12-step program; he thinks his depression is a healthy thing at this stage in his recover (7 years in the program) -- it means, to him, that he...

Hi all. I came on this morning because I am living with a depressed spouse (who will not agree with me that he is depressed - in fact i'm too scared of hurting/angering him that I won't say it to him), and, anyway, my reactions to...

Hi all -- DS is 4 1/2 and has been in a Montessori 3 - 6 classroom for the last 9 months. At home, his behavior is really good - respectful, appropriately exuberant, happy, curious, focused. He loves to draw (seriously, he could...

so glad to find you all here, still! I can't believe how checked out of mothering.com I've been ... I found facebook and that just ruined my life So much to catch up on, and I hope to soon -- we are still in Iowa, have only just...