Please know I worry myself sick that the times I have lost it with mac have scarred him for life. This is why you all sharing with us is so important and probably more important than us wrapping you all in love. There is so much strength in you sharing. There is power in you all letting it out. It helps countless others and you are heroes.
Xander ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Spike's Bitches 48: I Say, We Go Out There, and Kick a Little Demon Ass.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
I want to wrap you all in warm emotionally safe comfort blankets.
This. Aims, I'm sorry you had a rough night.
We're headed for the hospital in a few minutes. I am so damn hungry.
Also? PUPPIES..
And kittens. And baby camels.
Capybaras.
All of the above.
I also wanted to hide the reaction from Emeline, because she loves her grandparents and I don't want to make her afraid of them. I don't know how or if I even should address that past with her when she's older. Hmmmm ... that's an interesting thought.
I hope you do. I think too many families keep secrets. And it's one thing to not tell her as a kid, or to be trying not to let your relationship past affect her relationship with them, but I think knowing things about your parents like that helps you understand them, and can help make sense of tensions and undercurrents you might've been aware of but not understanding, as a kid.
We probably will, at some point. Along with the fact that neither of her grandfathers are biologically related to her and that she has a biological grandfather living in the state that has never met her. And that there is a nice, long line of mental illness that she's a part of.
Maybe give her all that as a Birthday present when she is 16, because a gift of issues is perfect for a hormone riddled teen (found out about grandfather's alcoholism at 15/16).
Oh!! And the sexual abuse of my great-grandmother at the hands of her father which is why that line of my family is American and not Canadian.