@HenryX 

@Anastasia @Former-Member @Emelia8 @1stepup61 

The small but meaningful positive experiences I had with flying and boats lifted my mood a lot when we all started posted here.  Somehow it gave a positive spin to the friendships.

I am proud of my daughter in many ways, but she has also been one eyed in her success and rejecting of her brother and I, so it is a mixed bag.  She works very hard, is successful and aiming even higher.  She puts her anger to work, but without allowing for natural processing of history and important life and death issues she has allowed herself to be manipulated by her father and half sister and been robbed of a mother.  We cannot regain our time.  I did what I could to put her on a postive trajectory getting her into the top school and all that,  but there have been abuses of power issues along the way in that school (teacher grooming and relationship) that did not help our relationship.  In a way it keeps pain alive in my son, although we are all trying to "accept" and move on.  How does one know which things to accept and which not ... for me it has not always been easy to discern.