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Submitted by cpreston on Wed, 05/30/2012 - 4:04pm

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I gotta be honest, sometimes I feel like I wished this was a physical “place” that I could jump in my car and drive to, it’d be a bar of course and we’d all know each other… I’d get a martini and one of you would say “oh, it’s been one of THOSE days for you too?”

Right? it just makes me feel better sometimes to bleed out all the venom that I felt building up

But sometimes… I read a bunch of posts and it just pisses me off… I get pissed off FOR most of you, not AT any of you of course… but I start to feel like I really WISH I could just be the evil step-parent type...and sometimes that feeling lingers a bit too long

Can anyone else here relate?

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Submitted by ladyfosho on Thu, 05/31/2012 - 4:38pm

HAHAHA! No kdding. Posting here makes me feel better and reading the other stories makes me feel like I am not alone. That's nice.

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Submitted by BSgoinon on Wed, 05/30/2012 - 5:50pm

I feel better being able to type out my anger. Half the time I don't even care if anyone replies to me. I just need to get it out before I explode! And if steptalk were a bar... well, I would be an alcoholic.

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Submitted by bi on Wed, 05/30/2012 - 6:04pm

yes, i do. this is my purging place. this is where i say all the things i can't say IRL. if i didn't have a place to purge, i would carry all that around with me like a physical weight. if i can let the poison out as it sets in, then the infection doesnt get out of control.

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Submitted by mama_althea on Thu, 05/31/2012 - 3:39pm

Finding this place made me feel much better. Sometimes it's like the act of typing out the situation lets it leave my body through the my fingers, into the keyboard, and onto the screen, getting a lot out of my system. It also feels good to get agreement and support. If I could even get ACKNOWLEDGEMENT from SO, I could live through this quite a bit easier. Like we were in this together.

However, I have to be careful. If I hang around here too much, which is easy to do, I start to feed off it and obsess or find new fault in our situation.

I can tell that the amount of time I spend here is precisely proportional to how I am feeling, for sure.

It also makes me feel better to try and help or support other members. It's so much easier to solve other people's problems Biggrin

In short, I'm very grateful to have this place. It would be awesome if were a "real" place. It would have a bar and a buffet and a dessert cart. Everything would be made of real glass, not kid-proof plasticware. I picture a regular bar plus umbrella tables and puffy couches scattered around.

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Submitted by dledden on Thu, 05/31/2012 - 4:04pm

I love posting here, even though I get attacked most of the time because my posts are about my AUTISTIC stepson. I don't care, I need a place to vent, and I do appreciate EVERYONE'S feedback even when I completely disagree with it. Sometimes I wish I could jump into the screen and hug someone and say OMG, me too!