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mixed feelings??
| Fri, 05-25-2007 - 12:03am |
ive raised my teenage sister for a long time now... on my own, since she was eleven(whn our mother passed away) and i am her legal guardian...shes turning 18 soon and graduating this weekend...she stays with my friend most of the time but this just stared recently b/c she'll be 18 and needs to make her own choices....the thing is part of me is very excited and i feel like i have prepared her well for life and she will be fine and i get to focus on me for awhile...the other part of me is kinda sad my baby is a grown-up...i guess thats normal...but ive been pretty hurt lately because she always gets me something for mothers day (which she calls siters day) and she told me happy sisters day this yr but did not get me a card or anything...tht would not have hurt my feeling so mush except for the fact that she got my friend a card.....the ones shes been staying with...i do all the work for all these yrs and i dont get evenb a little credit...i hate to sound selfish but she has never really appreciated the mommy role i took on for her so that her life could be much less complicated and she could be a kid unlike mine was at her age...i did not do any of it for recognition i did it b/c i love her and shes my baby but i just wonder if she will ever appreciate what i have done for her or at least show me respect....shes been really freat lately but i cant get rid of the hurt that is caused by the mothers day thing and the fact that i feel like shes taking my baby after ive done all the work, i know shes not a baby anymore and that she is trying to be her own person and my friend(who is much older than i am) is just trying to be helpful to me but i just feel like shes stealing my child....does this sound stupid...am i just experiencing the normal mixed feeling that all parents have when their children grow up.....

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