Day 15 Williams/Bradfort Families Therapy

Emelie and Bella, and Aiden. Begin to write affirmations and throw them into there pails. Then lighting there newly decorated candles they say silent prayers to the candle light. Thomas is back in the hospital again with more liver problems, you see, not meaning to the doctor had over medicated once and accidentally pickled Thoma's liver, now it's not the same, but his stubborn eating habits sure were! So, there he laid in a hospital bed, while today's meeting went on as ususal. Grandpa Alan had not slept well again, he worries about us all so, sometimes he just can't bring himself to rest. He worries how on earth could we hold up without Thomas around. The answer is we couldn't, not for a while anyway, a long while. Things would just go to pot a bit more, than already. I guess Emelie just knew Janie and Bella were right, even though how much she hated to admit it, she did need a close friends shoulder to cry on right now. Yet, the only close friend she'd ever really had now has a husband and children of her own, and would probably just think her problems, somehow smaller or not as pressing as her own. Emelie would never know though, because her fear of rejection kept her from even writing her oldest dearest friend, even a little letter or anything. She knew they led very different lives, with very different values. They grew up in the church together, and Melissa being the smarter at retaining the bible and in sports, just was the straight and narrow one. While Emelie always chose and loved her family more, no matter what. She stopped studying and never even tryed for any school activities. She became a homebody, who barely left the house. Just to make sure old Mom and Pops were doing o.k. still. Even if it wasn't necessary anymore. Some old habits were just too hard to break I guess. So, here she was again, and of course Aiden and Bella both thought her absolutely crazy, just out of her mind. Then who could blame them, they had allowed themselves a real life, to move on and grow. Emelie always tryed to be happy and stayed behind, but she mostly felt left out and angry and just plain stupid. For allowing her own family to us her this way foe so long. How to change it though, after so long now, how to move on and grow up? For good this time. Without making them feel left behind and angry too? There was no way to do this, she could see anyway. Then came the other questions to Emelie, what exactly would she be moving on to? What kind of life with any kind of real meaning? She took anti-depressants that made a sexual life not interesting at all, and knew it would be a near miracle if she could even offer a man a family life, with children of his own. Naturally anyway. She had thought of artificial life many times, well it's not artificial once it's grown in a human body and raised by a loving caring family. She was getting older now though, and the money it would cost to do such a thing is just so unreal. Who on earth would want an old woman with nothing to offer, but a bunch of her old family memories and traditions? No one that's who. She could be wrong, but her faith in men from her past relationships made it pretty impossible to have any kind of real faith in them now anyway. So what else was she to think or feel at this point, unless of course there came someone to prove her wrong, that was pretty much her points of view so far. As for Bella she has always been the much more confident all American girl, and no doubt some lucky young man well see that and fall head over heels in love. They were raised as sisters yet really they couldn't be any more different as night and day were! Aiden the middle child, yet only son was not only spoiled rotten, yet at the same time as a young man had very confused issues about when it came to woman and who could really blame him growing up between these two young woman. Bella refused to see it this way of course, daubing it sexist as Aiden had, had everything just passed to him. Yet, Emelie clearly saw the truth Aiden had worked very hard for everything he had, just as Bella had! Bella seemed more like the middle child, left out these days than any of them, which was so very hard for Emelie to grasp! Seeing as Bella had always been the in control one, not anymore it seemed. It just made Emelie more depressed , if an independent woman like her sister couldn't make it in the world, what chance in hell did she ever have! Now they listened to the sounds of Shakira's "No" one of Emelie's CD's. As they cleaned up the meeting room, in great hopes that Mom and Pops wouldn't have to be in the hospital much longer, and would be joining them again with Grabdpa Alan. Emelie made sure Grandpa Alan was well cared for, until they returned. End of Day 15