Category Archives: Family Dynamics

The Love Between Siblings in the Written Correspondences

The depth of love between the siblings, something I will NEVER have!!! Translated… I’d picked up a book I bought in my teenage years, and as I was flipping through it, a yellowed piece of paper fell out. I’d opened … Continue reading

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Grateful Toward My Adoptive & Birthparents

A story of adoption, translated… “You’re not our blood.” The very first time I’d heard that, I couldn’t understand I was too young, until in elementary school, it’d, dawned on me suddenly, and I’d felt, extremely, awful about it. Turns … Continue reading

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My Super Aunt

Having the support from her aunt, who’s firm and steady, to help raise her own son, and the child is, more than blessed, to have such a stable person in his infancy, translated… My husband and I both worked nine … Continue reading

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The Enmeshment of Children from Single-Parent Homes…

The conclusions of things, from the various things I observed, read up on, and yes, there are still those, “odd ones” that don’t quite fit in this “circle” I’d, drawn… There’s, this prevalence (or so I’m inclined to believe???), that … Continue reading

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Don’t Hug Me

The husband and the wife had, separate alternative motives in their minds, as they interacted with one another, and their own young, translated… Yoyo took a bite out of the rice balls, found that it had sesame fillings, stated, “Whoa! … Continue reading

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Empty Nest, on Filial Relations

The members of this family were, split up, living in different cities, because of work, and schooling too, translated… If the metaphor of a family being a small nest is true, and after the nest had a few chicks, the … Continue reading

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Dad’s First Time Shopping, Finally Understanding Him

The father only didn’t want to impose on his family, so, he’d not, enjoyed “shopping” from before, but since he’d become, “mobilized”, he’d, enjoyed it, a whole lot! Translated… “Nah, you guys go ahead, I prefer to stay in the … Continue reading

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Looking After My Demented Father-in-Law

With a demented elderly at home, it’s never easy, but, we all still, learn to cope with the various situations that surface from day to day, translated… Since my mother-in-law passed, my father-in-law had been, living alone in their home, … Continue reading

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The Awkwardness Between a Father and a Daughter

Allowing her father to be by himself to grieve for the loss of his wife, the thoughtfulness of a daughter, translated… Don’t know how the families coped with the death of a member of the families, how do they comfort … Continue reading

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Door, a Poem

Translated… My Child Always Knocks in Attempt to Disrupt Everything I Was Doing Bathing, Sleeping, Going to the Toilet In order to Prevent Myself from Hearing that Rush, Like He was About to Break into the Room, that Annoying Knocking … Continue reading

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