Posted on April 16, 2007 by Rod E. Smith, MSMFT
Reader: My elderly mother, who has a nice home and everything she needs, is very unkind to me. Sometimes she is cruel and uses a lot of guilt to keep me visiting her. I am in my forties and would prefer not to see her. What do you suggest I do? (Situation abbreviated from longer [...]
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Posted on May 3, 2006 by Rod E. Smith, MSMFT
(To my second son’s Birthmother on Mothers’ Day 2003)
On a weekend like this, with Mother’s Day getting a lot of attention, birthmothers who willingly or unwillingly placed a child for adoption might feel they have somehow disqualified themselves from the honor of celebrating Mother’s Day. Not so in my book.
There’s a woman somewhere in Indiana, [...]
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Posted on May 3, 2006 by Rod E. Smith, MSMFT
(Written to my first son’s Birthmother for Mothers’ Day 2000)
I watch my two-year-old son bending at the hip, one foot raised and turning until he falls gloriously to the floor in convulsive laughter, and a momentary pain lights somewhere so deep inside me I can hardly tell in which of my internal galaxies it sits. [...]
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