Tag: Favouritism

• A bitter pill to swallow

  Ironically the medication I take is literally bitter pills. I have the unfortunate moment of tasting them on my tongue before I wash them down with the tiny paper cup of water the Nurse gives me after watching to make sure I swallow my tablets. Anyway. Blogging is all good and well when I’m the…

  janetdthomas77

  October 20, 2022

  anxiety, family, Family Obligations, Favouritism, Fears, identity, Illness, Jealousy, Life, Relationships, siblings, worth

  brothers, family, Favouritism, Jealousy, Life, mental illness, Relationships, resentment

• The 1st Chapter of my Memoir

  You’re in for a treat tonight, guys – I wanted to share my updated 1st Chapter of my Memoir with you and ask your thoughts on it. Here it is: Chapter 1: The Mountain I carry Afternoons were always humid in Nhulunbuy, so sweat beaded on our foreheads and made its way in rivers down…

  janetdthomas77

  October 12, 2022

  Author life, books, family, Family Obligations, Favouritism, Fears, Friends, gardening, identity, Jealousy, Life, loss, love, memoir, Relationships, siblings, worth

  family, Favouritism, goldenchild, Life, matilda, mental illness, Relationships, unfavouritechild

• The Mountain I carry

  

  What is your first ever memory? Was it happy? (I pray that it was). I have blurry, far-away memories – as if I’m seeing them underwater and all the sounds and sights are fuzzy and not quite clear enough to be definite… I think I remember the hut I grew up in – in the…

  janetdthomas77

  June 3, 2022

  anxiety, bullies, depression, family, Favouritism, Fears, identity, Life, Relationships, worth

  Favouritism, Life, painful, themountainIcarry, unfavourite, worthless

• The things we remember

  January 29, 2017 I’ve read a lot of posts on FB lately about the same topic – what we choose to remember. “Do 100 things right, no one says a word, but do ONE thing wrong – and they’ll never forget it” “No one remembers all the good things you did for them – they…

  janetdthomas77

  April 24, 2021

  family, Favouritism, Fears, Life, mental illness, Relationships

  Dads, epilepsy, family, Favouritism, gaslight, Relationships, Step Dads, Step Daughters