tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1268746983441346507.post1253221665445586565..comments2024-02-21T02:19:16.755-08:00Comments on Widow's Voice: Seven Widowed Voices Sharing Love, Loss, and Hope : Grief, Parenting, and CopingMichele Neff Hernandezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02356589209090780127noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1268746983441346507.post-44223166014358367752010-07-27T06:26:21.335-07:002010-07-27T06:26:21.335-07:00Boy, I can relate to your post about being a singl...Boy, I can relate to your post about being a single parent. I have two teenage daughter's and this was exactly what I was thinking about yesterday. I have one who has inherited the very worst things about her father who I loved dearly despite these faults. She has always been very difficult from birth, cried t most of the first three months of her life. As a 17 year it is even worse. I cried for my husband's support yesterday after dealing with another of her outburst. And then too thought, why do I have to pay for her father's sins. She's angry at him for dying, but doesn't admit this nor show any grief for him, because she believes this shows weakness as she has suggested when she sees me cry. All I can do is my best and hope for the winds of change and they will. Tommorrow she will be remorseful and beg for her privledges back. And I will have to stand my ground and say "No"- like her father would have. I get no break from being a parent like those who are divorced who claim to be like us, widows! But I know it's my job to do, so I must do it, because despite her lousy behavior I am the only parent she has got and I love her still!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com