Dec
20
2009
Sometimes Our Families Know Us Too Well (And Don’t)
Author: siggySometimes our families know us too well (and don’t). I am just referring now to the family I grew up–particularly my two sisters and my parents (though both dead).
Why is it your immediate family dismisses your gifts? You have to get validation from the outside?
I remember the last conversation I had with my Dad. He was much more impressed with the million his future son-in-law made selling his company than anything I did.
It is true I was not successful in making money (or amassing a fortune) but I spent a lifetime writing and none of that mattered. Only Money.
My two sisters also take my gifts for granted. Maybe, that is why we have to make friends—people who are not blood. They choose to be our friend.
They are attracted to us by who we are although it is still disappointing to me that I never was truly appreciated by the family I grew up with.
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