Terijo
Terijo
Jul 24, 2017 · 2 min read

Patsy

There are many things I could say in response to this amazing message of love and hope you have sent me… I can honestly only think of one that I WANT to say.

And that is very simply Thank you.

This trip started out as a huge trigger for me… so afraid to think of all that could happen that I nearly missed what might happen…

And that? would have been a tragedy. Because my father truly DOES want to make amends and to reconnect. And my step-mother has been trying to facillitate that, for all of his being an obnoxious PITA to her in the process…

My sister has stepped up her game, found her voice in wanting to do for me what *I* did for her for so many years… And she IS protecting me from the worst of what might happen…

The visit with my mother has yet to happen, but, it will on Tuesday morning. Hopefully, my step-dad will be out of the hospital by then, but if not? I will go see him there…

Regardless? I will, and have, done none of this alone.

For the first time in my life…? My father and my siblings have heard that I am struggling, and they are standing with me, holding me up, and helping me through it.

I need know nothing else… not right now anyway. Not from them anyway…

And you?

You helped me look for those signals of their willingness to do that. You helped me to remember that, regardless of what they did? I can handle this. And that, if we act out of love, instead of out of jealousy, or hate, we can move forward — no matter WHERE we may have been before.

So..?

Thank you. You are a true gem.

And I, for one, am glad to have you in my world. ❤

    Terijo

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    Wake the Red-head. G’head. I double-dog dare ya. Poet, Thinker, Mother, Lover… Friend. 💋