Traitors in the back yard
So its recently come to my attention that insinuations have been made on a private livejournal entry that Craig and I are "terrible parents". This came from someone who is a stone's throw from thirty and has never cared for anything more demanding than a cat. Who always avoided hanging out with Craig and I and the children like it was the plague. She might have pictures with my kids but I guarantee did nothing for or with them since they were babies. Her ex- who she is trying to call out on all manner of things- has always hung out with and loved my children, so much so that my youngest refers to him as her "best friend". I'm sure all these comments were made for the benefit or her "new friend". I'll leave the obvious analysis of that alone.
I am by no means a perfect parent and quite frankly I have never met one. The pressures of being a parent are immense, so immense that the cliche is true, "you don't understand until you've experienced it". The fact of the matter is that I'm there, everyday, at work and at home so they have a chance to succeed at life, to be happy, and to feel loved. That is not to say that I think I'm some sort of saint, I'm simply doing what any parent that loves their children do.
Where I take personal and extreme offense is anyone questioning Craig. Craig is the absolute best parent I've ever met, and that is one of the reasons I feel in love with him. I've never met a man who was so devoted and so in love with his children. He has made so many personal sacrifices for his children when the typical male would have left them to the devices of their biological mother, for better or worse. Craig is a person filled with light and love and the fact that I get to catch some of that is treasure I hold very dear. And therefore, will tolerate no one giving him any shit. Especially not from the single most two-faced person I've ever met.
At least online- I have reached out to close friends-- I have managed to remain silent on everything else this person has thrown at me, chalking it up to "well, she's hurting, she's in a bad place and has chosen me to be the sacrifice of all of it". I feel like a fool for ever thinking she was my friend, when apparently all along she hated me. I just wished she would have had the spine to say something in the beginning. It would have spared me the initial heartache I felt in all this emotional quagmire. And it would have sparred her the extreme discomfort I guess she felt being near me. What I don't understand is that if she hated me all along like she says now, why did she even bother?
I do have to give credit where credit is due. She was the first person to suggest that Craig and I might make a successful couple. But now I can't help but think that whole thing was just revenge against "new friend". Ah, what a tangled web we weave. If I'm mistaken, I am sorry. Craig and I's relationship is the best thing, short of my children, that has ever happened to me.
I'm posting this here so she can read it. I'll also post it to myspace so all of my friends can read it. Someone in your backyard is a traitor too, my dear. I was sent the entirety of the text you put in this forum. Have fun figuring out who it is. Its a small, petty revenge, but I'm willing to take it.
I am by no means a perfect parent and quite frankly I have never met one. The pressures of being a parent are immense, so immense that the cliche is true, "you don't understand until you've experienced it". The fact of the matter is that I'm there, everyday, at work and at home so they have a chance to succeed at life, to be happy, and to feel loved. That is not to say that I think I'm some sort of saint, I'm simply doing what any parent that loves their children do.
Where I take personal and extreme offense is anyone questioning Craig. Craig is the absolute best parent I've ever met, and that is one of the reasons I feel in love with him. I've never met a man who was so devoted and so in love with his children. He has made so many personal sacrifices for his children when the typical male would have left them to the devices of their biological mother, for better or worse. Craig is a person filled with light and love and the fact that I get to catch some of that is treasure I hold very dear. And therefore, will tolerate no one giving him any shit. Especially not from the single most two-faced person I've ever met.
At least online- I have reached out to close friends-- I have managed to remain silent on everything else this person has thrown at me, chalking it up to "well, she's hurting, she's in a bad place and has chosen me to be the sacrifice of all of it". I feel like a fool for ever thinking she was my friend, when apparently all along she hated me. I just wished she would have had the spine to say something in the beginning. It would have spared me the initial heartache I felt in all this emotional quagmire. And it would have sparred her the extreme discomfort I guess she felt being near me. What I don't understand is that if she hated me all along like she says now, why did she even bother?
I do have to give credit where credit is due. She was the first person to suggest that Craig and I might make a successful couple. But now I can't help but think that whole thing was just revenge against "new friend". Ah, what a tangled web we weave. If I'm mistaken, I am sorry. Craig and I's relationship is the best thing, short of my children, that has ever happened to me.
I'm posting this here so she can read it. I'll also post it to myspace so all of my friends can read it. Someone in your backyard is a traitor too, my dear. I was sent the entirety of the text you put in this forum. Have fun figuring out who it is. Its a small, petty revenge, but I'm willing to take it.