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Hi!  I hope everyone had at least a bearable holiday!  It feels like a minute but...tomorrow is my daughter's (pwBPD) 25th birthday

It seems like this should be more than a bday card & gift card with the (new) customary....Happy Birthday, I love you

I really miss my daughter

I wish I could just call, like most normal mother's can and do (she has made it very clear not to call)

I wish I was planning a birthday dinner (we used to go to the same restaurant EVERY single year for decades)

I know I could go on all day with wishes

(I know, like last year, I am going to wish I could just sleep all day until the day passes)

sigh

Hi,
 I am estranged from my adult bpd son as well.  It is like a day of mourning. What I have done is actually did something nice for myself on that day.  After all, I was there with him   :).  It is my day too!  Can you think of something small you can do for you; or even honor your child (i.e. small donation to charity dealing with the mentally ill/ bpd etc).?
Be gentle with you.

Thank you for your understanding!  hmmm....well, I HAD to be at work, so, there's that!  I am very involved in many cat organizations and WAS planning on dropping off some donations (I am actually going to take my granddaughters' to a water park tomorrow, as I promised them for months!) I just wish there was a magic wand....:(

Hi Bpdstinks,

I also do something nice for myself on udds birthday.

sometimes its planned other times not, nothing extravagant. In a way it has become another mothers day that I celebrate and give to myself.

well...another bday down...(this one was worse, because it is 2 in a row, yet easier, because I knew what to expect!) my husband had the harder time than me....I have tried, countless times, to explain the BPD world to him, with zero success