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Jixby Phillips · #1

HEY DUDE, COULD YOU DO ME A FAVOR AND MAKE SOME KIND OF REFERENCE TO SOMETHING THAT REQUIRES A GOOGLE SEARCH LINKING TO EITHER A PICTURE OR WEBPAGE THAT REENFORCES THE IDEA THAT WHAT YOU ARE MAKING IS A REFERENCE AND POST IT WITH BIG ORANGE LETTERS TO SHOW HOW UNIQUE AND DIFFERENT YOU ARE THAN EVERYBODY ELSE K THX

kellychaos · #2

I can't work under this kind of pressure. It has to come naturally.

Esuohlim · #3

ZING!

glowbelly · #4

kellychaos · #5

It ain't easy bein' Mr. Big Stuff.

AChimp · #6

OMG, Jixby, you just have to post another huge run-on sentence in all caps, just for me.

Do it, please.

kellychaos · #7

Big letters from a big boy. I'm a big boy! I'm a big boy! It's my BIRFDAY!

whoreable · #8

How did Jixby Phillips survive so long without the picklehat emoticon?

Jixby Phillips · #9

WHAT ARE YOU ALL TALKING ABOUT

mburbank · #10

Oh sure, what are WE all talking about, what are WE all talking about, what are we all TALKING ABOUT?!? That is so damn easy for you to say.

Mockery · #11

:bacos

mburbank · #12

Are we tlking about bacos again or are we still talking about bacos?

NIGhtMAre · #13

not sure.

mburbank · #14

Thank God you came. I-mockery was really starting to slip.

FS · #15

save it

kellychaos · #16

Mr. Phillips,

Please refrain from using the picklehat emoticon. I'm fairly sure that it is having the opposite of the intended effect. You're bringing down the mean average of the respect for the remainder of the board that wishes to indulge in it's use.

Yours worriedly,

A Concerned Board User

mburbank · #17

Stop. Just stop.

CAN'T YOU SEE I LOVE YOU BOTH?

CAN'T YOU SEE YOU'RE TEARING ME APART?!

kellychaos · #18

Children often experience anger, sadness, rejection, and guilt. All of these emotions are confusing. They may also experience emotions such as relief, which they then feel guilty about.

Like adults, children experience stages of loss and grief. They often experience these emotions as a process with the following stages:

Stage 1:
Denial. Mom and Dad will get back together again.

Stage 2:
Anger. How can you do this to me? You betrayed me. If you really loved me you would stay together.

Stage 3:
Bargaining. If I am really good maybe you will get back together again.

Stage 4:
Depression. I feel empty inside and nothing can make it go away.

Stage 5:
Acceptance. Mom and Dad are not going to get back together. It's okay that my friends know my parents aren't together any more.

As with adults, children may not go through these stages in order, and the time the process takes varies from child to child.

Research and the experience of professionals over the past 20 years tells us what children of separated parents most want to know:

Mom and Dad will continue to love me.

Mom and Dad will stop fighting.

BOTH Mom and Dad will be here in my life.
If I can't have that, at least one of my parents will be here in my life.