Enlightenment

Heard today from a little "bird" That SS isn't having such a great time in Hell, Or. I've kinda had a change of heart. She thinks that if she stays there and behaves she will be able to go back and live with her mom. The saddest thing about that is we all know her mother has no intention of letting her comeback, and yet for the past year and a half she has told her that if she's good, if she shapes up, she can come home. I kinda feel sorry for the kid. I've realized that all she wants is her mother, and I'm not it, her dad's not it, so she takes out her crap on us. She's still a child, she needs a mother, and her mother has no time for anyone but her "new" husband and her baby boy (who's 12, btw). Her mother should write a book on how to fuck up a kid, cause she's doing a bang-up job.

I think I'm getting soft in my old age...I was really angry for a long time about the way SS treated me, but now I think I understand that it's not about me, it's about her mom, and since she can't take it out on her (because she DEFINITELY won't let her come home) she takes it out on me. Or maybe she really just hates me, I don't know, I'm not a psychotherapist!

I have NOT, however, softened on the BTL in laws, but I will keep my mouth shut for a change, and see where that leads me...