Posted by susan C on August 23, 2001, at 11:41:33
In reply to Re: Wendy and her stored suitcases » susan C, posted by Wendy B. on August 23, 2001, at 11:27:33
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> > Dear Wendy,
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> > I want to thank you for taking the time and energy to respond and contribute to all of the heart baring talk that this thread has uncovered. I feel, as I read each of our posts, that each of us has challenges and decisions. I know I feel that way about my husband. How can he stay with me, with all the problems I have. How much worse could I be? How would I have acted if I were in a relationship that you just described?
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> > Oh, btw, the keyboard is new, my mouse is old, Mighty Mouse is my childhood Hero..
> > 'here I come to save the day, Mighty Mouse is on the way' and of course Andy Kaufman's imitation...and I just got hand me down speakers and my son's room, the whole place really, vibrates with base from his new speakers, so why do I have any?...and I generally tend to get silly.
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> > and some days, some parts of days are just hard to get through, but I look forward to trying to contribute to this site and the challenge to be coherant and supportive.
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> > Mouse under foot
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> > Susan C.
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> hi Susan,
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> I tried to IM you on the Psy-Babble Open yesterday afternoon... You had just signed off, I think. Sheesh! Signing on for an e-group is a challenge, to say the least! I didn't know you had to get your own little Yahoo mail thing... just one more idiotic thing to have to clean up after...
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> Enough ragging. Thank you for the post... I didn't mean from my post, that others should pack it in, or that you or anyone else were too difficult to live with, as with my ex-hub... he had an ESPECIALLY difficult problem (oh, I forgot to mention straightening and combing out the fringes on the rugs...). Living with a depressed person is difficult, yes. But the worst it gets is that they withdraw from you... my ex would actively *come at* me with demands and demarcations and anger and all the rest...
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> Does depression run in your family? I ask because I've lived with a depressed person (my mom), all of my growing up years... I wonder how many of us could look at it that way... It's PAYBACK time!... Just kidding... Your husband loves you, would he just up and leave if you had heart trouble? Probably not... Maybe you could look at it that way? I dunno, just rambling.
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> As for the Mighty Mouse thing - I love it! Andy Garcia's riff where he puts it on the turntable and lip-syncs is a trip! I think I saw it in its original on SNL... The '70s are a distant haze, however. They re-played him doing it last year (an anniversary of his death?) when they did some TV tribute to him on SNL or Headliners and Legends or True Hollywood Story, I'm a sucker for all that stuff...
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> So Mighty Mouse you are! I think it's a hit! It also apparently gives you a little kick to come up with an alter-ego, so that's wonderful... I mean it. Keeping up the humor when we're depressed is *essential*. And you know you're doing better when you can find yourself laughing at some small thing that can just brighten up one small portion of our day. I truly believe that. (although our familes and friends and co-workers might wonder why we're chuckling to ourselves for no apparent reason! We're obviously crazed madwomen!)
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> Again, thank you so much for your response, it really matters to me.
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> Your friend,
> Wendy
Thank you Wendy, swept me right off my feet with that swing of your articulate verbal broom. And I was hiding in the corner. Thanks for some perspective.A moist eyed mouse
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