Hello my friends in recovery. Holiday weekends are so hard. Where do we ever get this imaginary perfect June Cleaver family life?? lol! Oh, right! Tv and honestly, why would I set my expectations to television?
Anyway, expectations are what got me in a heap lastnight.My daughter loves to go spend a lot of her time in a drug infested where her boyfriends parents live. I was both mother and father to my children. I thought a text would be nice from her or maybe comming home around 7pm so I could go to a meeting. You know, "mom helps me so much financially, maybe she'd like to go out with AA friends tonight" HA WRONG! I have to admitt to you all I acted out badly. I made her feel very bad and she cried
What a jerk right! I can't expext this kind of stuff from a 19yr old! I'm 39 and just learning this. I apologized and hugged her. I don't know what else to do though. She had a job interview, but she said after we can talk about it. Should I stick to the "my feelings were hurt" thing or just drop it? It was a day for honering a parent and she chose to spend it with active drunk abusive bf's father. And would anyone else feel hurt or am I being selfish?