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Originally Posted by Byo
Hi Karen
Is it cause of your Dad's depression that he doesn't want you to phone. Don't mean to prey but is it sadness over your moving away, if so maybe thats the reason. I too have depression from moving away from home and sometimes speaking to my Mom astually makes me feel worse as I know I can never be with her.
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Hi Byo,
Yes I think that's it. But it's strange in that I phone them more than when I was in the UK, see them more (yes I know it's through Skype), and I actually listen to them, whereas before I took them for granted. However I don't see how not talking to me at all is going to help the situation. We feel sad because we love each other, but I know (and hopefully they do too) that we will see each other once or maybe twice a year. When we do see each other it's for a month at a time and it was so fantastic when we took my parents to the Grampians and they saw kangaroos and emus etc.
I would rather have the sadness and the love than not have the love at all. If that makes any sense.
And you're not prying. If I didn't want to share I wouldn't have put it on a public forum
Thank you for sharing what you feel too. You obviously love your mother too.
Karen