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Name: Amalie

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I guess I am selfish. This is it for me. My baby who I have worked so hard to take care of has decided that she hates me and wants to live with her dad who abandoned all of us 3 years ago. No warning, no signs just bam everything is your fault and I want to be with him. My heart was already mostly dead. What little I had left was for her. My mind tells me that she is 13 and moods will happen but my soul is telling me to let it go. I have struggled and been crushed too many times. I have no fight left in me. Life has been too hard. I often wondered how a parent could walk away from a child as my ex did with our daughter and i guess I am finding out exactly how that works. I can't look at her. I can't think about her. It's too much. I need to block her out of my head. My beautiful baby girl and I can't stand the thought of her. Betrayed by absolutely everyone on this planet and now I am feeling the same distaste with my very own daughter. I guess everyone has their breaking point and this is mine. Life is intolerable. It is time to take care of me. ↓

Name: juanita | Date: Aug 19th, 2011 5:32 AM

Wow, I thought I was the only horrible mother whose daughter hated her. I know how you feel I guess this is normal for kid to feel anger towards us but what I started doing is listening and letting her know that I was fine if she went to live with her dad, as long as he was fine with her staying with himl. Then she started say I was kicking her out and I didn't want her. I know it seems like there is no win win but at least I don't have her threatening me with her wanting to move out. By the was my daughter is now 16 and is starting to undersand my situation. ↑