SSABlog#62

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My boyfriend is very angry. He always makes fun of others and never smiles or jokes.

He is hard to live with. Lately he just fights with me everyday. He is in recovery for drugs
and alcohol and does meetings. He is afraid I will leave him, but I don't want to stay because
he is so mean.

If I try to be independent even a little he freaks out. I just want to be happy and have no
money to move out. I am disabled. I gave up my low income to live here and can't get
housing. I try and detach , but he keeps folowing me around arguing with me.
Please help. The cops have not done anything. He is nice in public. He is not nice at home.
I am scared.

Sarah

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Dear Sarah;

Follow our instincts. You are in a dangerous situation. Get some support on your side,
because you don't want to go through this alone. Call your local domestic violence
center and get some help. Others in your situation have broken free and gone on to
find happiness in their lives. You can go to http://www.softshoulderadvice.com/SSAWomensResources.htm
to check out phone numbers of some centers that can help you.

Michelle

Pablo Casals

Every now and then, somewhere, some place, sometime, you are
going to have to plant your feet, stand firm, and make a point about who
you are and what you believe in. When that time comes, [son], you simply have to do it
Lee Riley

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in

eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star

in our hand and melting like a snowflake.

Marie Beyon Ray

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

Socrates

This came through the internet as author unknown. It sounds to me like it could be George Carlin...

"UP."

You lovers of the English language might enjoy this.

There is a word that has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that is "UP." It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP? At a meeting, why does a topic come UP? Why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report?

We call UP our friends And we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car.

At other times the little word has real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses. To be dressed is one thing but to be dressed UP is special.

And this UP is confusing: A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP. We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night. We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP!

To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP, look the word UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4th of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions.

If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more.

When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP. When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP When it rains, it wets UP the earth. When it doesn't rain for a while, things dry UP.

One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP, for now my time is UP, so............. Time to shut UP!