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    Mother's Love - A Double Edge Something

    JANUARY 29, 2012 10:17PM

    By pastvoices


    Topics: i ache, taking olive branches to a sword fight like taking a sword to a gun fight, if you don't understand ask don't assume, warnings insured good behavior, logical consequences over anger, rules with love riddled through, tears in fetal position or write this, bubble destroyer, lots of soap and water, actual viscosity, blowing bubbles, bubbles, tutor, non-scientist here, a college level course to learn teaching elementary science, learning biology, learning chemisitry, learning physics, after christmas, how do you handle the diagnosed depressive in your life?, dysfunction, pain, health, family

    • 9 Ratings
    • 1461 Views
    • 13 Comments
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    A single mom's first Christmas with baby

    DECEMBER 10, 2011 11:28AM

    By Kat Hudson


    Topics: single motherhood, single mom, baby, kat hudson, infant, christmas, holidays, dysfunction, baby daddy, awkward social situations, christmas trees

    • 7 Ratings
    • 597 Views
    • 9 Comments
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    Even on the best days...

    SEPTEMBER 12, 2011 5:25PM

    By pastvoices


    Topics: family, health, dysfunction, divorce, children of divorce, unblended blended family, grandparents, dysfunctional grandparent, bait, reacting, right or wrong, parenting skills learned and unlearned, email, healthy response to email wanted, pictures to share, pictures unavailable to share, do i ignore one grandchild in favor of one child, learning to listen to my doctors, apology given, how i learned healthier parenting skills

    • 1 Ratings
    • 186 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    Self Soothe or Self Medicate

    SEPTEMBER 10, 2011 12:54PM

    By Ivy Anne


    Topics: love, heal, monk, zen, thich nhat hanh, soothe, medicate, childhood, dysfunction, alanon, grief, alcoholic

    • 1 Ratings
    • 154 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    Family Dynamics....(aka Dysfunction)

    MAY 13, 2011 9:33PM

    By Chelle James


    Topics: open+call, family, dysfunction

    • 2 Ratings
    • 530 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    Addicted to Addiction Stories

    MAY 12, 2011 2:57PM

    By Mary Richmond


    Topics: david colman, aa, tough people, survivors, dysfunction, addicts, addiction, belief/religion

    • 6 Ratings
    • 366 Views
    • 8 Comments
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    Uncle Ron

    APRIL 27, 2011 9:55PM

    By pastvoices


    Topics: family after guests, dish washer, spilt milk, divorce, marriage, oil and water, spanking, child abuse but not then, baby-sitting, 50 year relationship, more brother than brother-in-law, pictures. the twins, drama, dysfunction, dysfunction, rotten aunts, uncles, relatives after divorce?, photography, food/drink, family

    • 0 Ratings
    • 219 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Hand Me Back My Shovel

    FEBRUARY 21, 2011 2:34PM

    By Terry Derrick


    Topics: romance, love, dysfunction, dating, relationships, health, gay/lesbian, family, belief/religion

    • Editor's Pick
    • 51 Ratings
    • 1707 Views
    • 67 Comments
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    Sense of the father

    FEBRUARY 16, 2011 10:53AM

    By Matt Paust


    Topics: fathers, sons, bigotry, liberalism, attention deficit disorder, dysfunction, reworked old post

    • Editor's Pick
    • 32 Ratings
    • 2282 Views
    • 40 Comments
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    When Your Step-Children Ignore You

    DECEMBER 27, 2010 8:55AM

    By Deborah Young


    Topics: step-children, blended families, dysfunction, sadness, family, a holly-jolly christmas

    • 2 Ratings
    • 331 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    Letter to Mom While the Window is Open

    NOVEMBER 13, 2010 12:25PM

    By Ivy Anne


    Topics: miss you, loss, love, daughter, memories, mom, tibetan beliefs, tibetan monks, alcholism, dysfunction, enabling, love

    • 0 Ratings
    • 606 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Grief and Alcoholic Families

    OCTOBER 30, 2010 11:16AM

    By Ivy Anne


    Topics: alcholism, dysfunction, aa, alanon, family disease, grief and loss, adult children of alcoholics, alcoholism

    • 0 Ratings
    • 140 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    A Chip Off the Old Trigger Button

    OCTOBER 5, 2010 9:02PM

    By TriggerHappy


    Topics: family, parents, engagement, wedding, dysfunction, back pain

    • 0 Ratings
    • 271 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    A Decade of Koch Sleaze

    AUGUST 24, 2010 11:30PM

    By Nicholas E. Coutis


    Topics: dysfunction, corruption, corporations, koch

    • Editor's Pick
    • 57 Ratings
    • 1962 Views
    • 65 Comments
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    Finding Family

    JULY 25, 2010 2:14PM

    By Nikki Stern


    Topics: life, family, marriage, dysfunction, heredity, relations, blood, friends, real families

    • Editor's Pick
    • 47 Ratings
    • 2270 Views
    • 55 Comments
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    We're Not the Waltons

    JULY 22, 2010 1:01AM

    By Kathy Riordan


    Topics: open call, non-traditional families, stay-at-home dad, dysfunction, survival, goodnight john-boy, robert redford, will geer doing mark twain and shakespeare, will geer, the waltons, sundance, sundance summer theater, family, real families

    • 4 Ratings
    • 246 Views
    • 4 Comments
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    the oppressor's clinical case file (poem)

    JULY 15, 2010 5:43PM

    By Tichaona Chinyelu


    Topics: pyschology, clinical case files, oppression, personificaton, copulation, dysfunction, columbine, parents, hitler, son of sam, dahmer, school killings

    • 1 Ratings
    • 252 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    Therapy and Depression Issues

    JULY 14, 2010 11:30PM

    By walkingaway


    Topics: dysfunction, family, mothers, life, living with depression, depression

    • 9 Ratings
    • 1264 Views
    • 16 Comments
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    I Don't Have Parents Anymore

    JULY 8, 2010 7:47AM

    By Christine Bollerud


    Topics: humor, dysfunction, memoir, growing up, parents, open call

    • 4 Ratings
    • 199 Views
    • 4 Comments
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    The Warden

    JULY 7, 2010 12:15PM

    By walkingaway


    Topics: life, dysfunction, family, prison

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