I finally awakened to the fact that I was a victim of spousal abuse and violence. My purpose in sharing these experiences is to hopefully help and encourage someone else to recognize that they are in an abusive relationship. At the bottom of this page you can see the links to the first five posts … More I Saw the Light (Part1)
I am writing these posts in the hopes that it will help others be more aware of their relationship and behavior patterns and also to help someone possibly catch problems before they lose themselves or their lives. https://www.joyful2beeblogs.com/2025/08/20/ letter-to-my-childhood-self/ https://www.joyful2beeblogs.com/2025/08/21/introduction-healing-wounds/ My Early Years My childhood was in a loving home with happily married parents. My … More First Relationships Begin
Rumi, a famous Persian philosopher from the 13th century, once aptly penned: “The wound is where the light enters you.” … More An Introduction to Healing Wounds of the Past
I have healed greatly from a long marriage to an emotionally abusive husband, who passed away after mini-strokes and finally heart failure in 2009. He changed over the years because of poorly controlled diabetes and mini-strokes, which showed up on his brain MRI. For me, it has been an eye-opening experience to finally understand bit … More Are You Being Abused?
Want some pie? Is food a symbol of love? Is food a substitute for love? Do our families feel loved as they enjoy the food we prepared for them? Let’s think about some of the roles that food may play in our lives. Babies feel loved when fed A baby, while drinking their first food, … More Want Some Food/Love?
For Part 1 of this letter https://joyful2beeblogs.com/2025/06/24/dear-grandmother-t-part–1 Dear Grandmother T, I understand you now in ways I never thought I would. I too had a happy marriage at first. Then things changed after the first four or five years. I now know the behavior I saw in you as weakness and frailty were the signs … More Dear Grandmother T. (Part 2)
Knowing that you were born in 1901, I knew you grew up in difficult times. I loved the picture (below) of you and your mother, my great grandmother, (named Big Mama by my father, as a child). Both of you have such comfortable and sweet smiles in the photo below. Below the photo, is a … More Dear Grandmother T. (Part 1)
As an older woman with a child’s heart (not the transplanted kind!) I still love to look back on my childhood and remember so many memories of good times with my family. In my earliest years 0 to 4 years old, I lived with my parents at 601 Arlington Avenue, Greenville, South Carolina, where there … More Memories from My Childhood
My husband and my sons have each experienced a weird number of strange occurrences where paper and their names are concerned. I am not sure exactly who it started with. My first son, M, says it started with my husband’s father not having a middle name and so “none” was entered where his middle name … More The Paper Curse Strikes Again and Again
Sometimes I wonder what our world is coming to. Sometimes it seems there is so much violence, prejudice, hatred, and disregard for the world and its different beliefs, countries, customs, and peoples. I have thought so many times, that our world’s future rests on the shoulders of our children. Our children need love and good … More Teach Your Children Well
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