I'm sure I will be blasted but.......
Posted By: Out on 2009-02-02
In Reply to: Something you didn't know about me - GabbyChick
I am gay and am finally happy after years of being miserable because I could not come to terms with it.
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I will be blasted but...
I had my cat declawed when he was very young but this was 15 years ago too. He completely ruined my entire apartment, pulling the stuffing out of furniture, bedding, etc. I did everything in my power to have him use a scratching post but he preferred my furniture. I didn't want to do it but it was either that or get rid of him which I had no plans of doing. He seemed to be in no pain after having it done and never developed any problems. It was a blessing for both of us. Most people are against it but I see it as being able to save the cat. There are a lot of people out there who would get rid of the cat first and then blast everybody who has this procedure done. It's a no win situation with some.
I'm probably going to get blasted for this
I have had several friends throughout the years who are homosexual. I am not judging anyone. I will say this though.... the ones I have known and had a close enough relationship with for us to talk about things, have had "issues". One was molested by her music teacher, another was abused by his father, that sort of thing. I also have a cousin who had a sex change many years ago; female to male. Haven't seen him in years. He is a distant cousin and the last time I saw him, he was married to a woman and he has a stepchild, and they seem very happy. She (he) was molested when she was a child also. I am just saying the people I have known in the past and been friends with have had traumatic things happen to them in their childhood. I know there are plenty of heterosexual people who have had traumatic things happen in their childhood as well and they are not "gay" but everyone has a different way of dealing with trauma.
I may be ignorant about a lot of things regarding this lifestyle but I do not believe I am judgemental, though I do believe it is a sin. We ALL have our things that we struggle with.
I may get blasted for this opinion, but I could never
understand why this whole thing was blown out of proportion.
My take on it was that WalMart and other stores were making it easier to be inclusive of all religions by saying "Happy Holidays". Christmas was included in that "holidays". My sister-in-law would go on and on and ON about how "they" were taking Christmas away from her. I told her when someone knocked on her door and said they were taking her tree away then I would listen...otherwise I didn't feel she had anything to worry about. If the stores were cutting it out completely, then complain......but it seemed kind of selfish IMO to want Christmas to be the only holiday acknowledged during the "holiday" season. Christians aren't supposed to be selfish. So then I guess we get to wait in line longer while the cashier expresses a greeting for ALL holidays? No, I don't think so. So saying "Happy Holidays" was the right thing to do. Too bad *Christians* bullied the stores into only including the Christian holiday (and by the way I am Christian). Very sad IMO.
Plus......it is a store.....not their home or their church. If someone tried to change Christmas in their home or their church THEN I could see the outrage.
You will be blasted probably for what you have written
but I take another stance on this because I have been through similar with elderly people (parent was 90 when they died). After their spouse died, they asked me to come and live with them and I absolutely refused. I told them first of all I have bills they would not pay for (could have but wouldn’t have and not their place anyway) but my life would be hel*. So overbearing and almost impossible to be around to visit, just bit my tongue in order to visit. Mine was not senile at all, just so darn irritating, put me down, watched me like a hawk in their home like I was going to steal their bed or something. Does your mother have anyone there to see about her or provide any outside assistance? I tried getting this for my parent (they were so bull-headed, turned everything down) but with the senility of course you know she needs someone if not already. I just tried to provide any and all assistance available for the elderly - Meals on Wheels and other associations to assist with my parent because I would not be there to do it..... although I was only a phone call away and always could be at their home say in a couple of hours if I were needed for a real emergency like you said. By the way, the dentist office completely out of line calling about an appointment? If another place asked and you did not want to give 1, just play like you are having a senior moment, ok? If you have not done so already, check out senior assistance programs. You probable have thought about this anyway, just what I tried to do. Oh, I had the courts set up to take over my parents daily living, etc. because of a person that was taking them for a lot of money- the court case supposed to be the next week and the parent killed in an accident on a lawnmower that weekend before the hearing.
You know my feelings also, but you get blasted
when you feel like this, on this board you do. Mine are grown also. I think lots on this board maybe with young babies, children and the like and have not reached the point to where it is not as coochie-cho as it was when little. Not a happy ever after type thing. One child self-reliant but into their own little self and the other 1 had to close the bank on that one. No more hearing from that 1, not even a call on Mothers Day. Have not talked to them in over 2 years now and live in the same town. Oh, loved them as babies though. Didn’t last a lifetime.
Thank you. They blasted me down below for saying pretty much the same thing.
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