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Human After All

Notes expressing disappointment, anger, and saying sorry

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There's something that I should do, meant to do, have to do. There's something that I want to do, and that's to say... I'm sorry! I apologize for the other day when I took apart one of your Kinex so I could play and build. They are yours (not mine)

I'm sorry I hurt your big toe! I hope you forgive me! I hope it doesn't hurt too much. I love you!

I'm sorry I lost my temper yesterday in the car. When one person starts yelling it's hard to not yell back. It's hard - but it's important to try anyway. Just because it's hard doesn't mean you can't do it - it's just harder that's all. Anyway, I'm

I'm sad that you left your good glove in an apple orchard. I wish that hadn't happened but it did. I hope you will be more careful with your next glove. I love you!

Somehow there must be a way to talk without arguing. To ask someone to do something without their taking offense. There must be but I haven't found it yet. I'll keep looking. Will you?

Yesterday you did a hurtful thing. My hope is that you understand this. My hope is that now the door is open and love can move freely again.

I'm sorry for being a little down lately. Finishing a big job always brings on a little let down and the holidays were so crazy (most of it "crazy good") and I'm just sorry for not being more fun to be around. Some of that mood is bound to rub off o

I hope you find a way to say how you feel. You will be so much happier!

Our lives together have ups and downs. Days when everything seems "right" and beautiful - days when it's all wrong. Sometimes it's just moments of rightness or wrongness. I can be in a bad mood and not even realize it - saying things in a not nice w

I want to apologize to you for losing my cool on Friday night. It was an inappropriate action on my part - undeserved by you. Please forgive me Joanna. I can make excuses for myself but there really are none that are viable. Love. Respect. Those are

Theo when you want something ask for it - don't make everyone guess what you would like. You might not always get what you want but a lot of times you will. Plus then other people will know what you like or don't like and we will give you what you l

This is our first correspondence since our shouting match on Sunday. I don't know why I joined in that discussion. I was unable to stay out of it and I should have. All these things going on - work, school, buying and selling homes - it's all stress

Did I yell at you last night? (Yes I did.) Am I sorry I did? (You bet I am.) Am I human? Do I make mistakes? (Yes I am, Yes I do.) I'm not God Theo - no one is. I'm only a man who's trying to be a good father.&nbsp

I don't think that any of us is blessed with the ability to hear what we sound like to others. Communication and relationships happen in the space between people - with each person carrying a unique understanding of that communication away with them

Five minutes extra. Did those five minutes really make you that angry - so angry that you wouldn't do your homework last night? I'm sorry for asking you to leave when the class was over. You are a part of our family and your family needed to get hom

Stress Frustration & Anger. These emotions can smother love. As strong as that love may be it's light can be blocked by those three terrible forces. Are you to blame? No! Remember how I told you that art exists as a relationship between a work a

I apologize for being frustrated last night and taking it out on you. I came home feeling hassled and a little out of control. I wanted time with my family but the time was gone and I got upset because of that. Getting upset only drove my family awa

Sometimes we open our mouth when we should have kept silent. Oftentimes we leave a friend waiting for words we never say. Sometimes a situation cries out for action yet we fail to see and act. Other times we run off half-cocked and promptly fall on

Everyone makes mistakes. All of us do sometimes. Sometimes the mistakes we make only hurt ourselves. Sometimes our mistakes hurt other people. When my mistakes hurt me I'm sorry. When my mistakes hurt someone else I'm really sorry. That's all I want

We all do things that we regret. We've all done things we're ashamed to admit. We've all been justifiably embarrassed and wrongfully humiliated. We've all had to ask for forgiveness. We all have the opportunity to grant forgiveness in return. Do we

I hope you had a good day today Theo. Try not to be so angry. I love you.

Life is hard sometimes. I know that. I know I'm doing the best I can to balance my work and my desires with the needs and wants of my family. Sometimes it seems like I can do it all and sometimes it feels like I can't get any of it to work out. Righ

First - I just want to say I apologize for getting upset and blaming you for making a mess last night. I was to blame as well - it wasn't your fault. Second - I want to say we all make mistakes and it's important that we forgive each other

I'm sorry I trapped you in the car on the way to school yesterday and bombarded you with my concern. It's hard for me to communicate my thoughts and feelings in appropriate ways. Maybe I should just stick to notetaking? I know you think that you wor

Everyone who touches us makes an impact. Think of the friends and teachers who have shaped your life so far. Think of the passing glance of a stranger that made you stop and think, change your mind, or drop a coin in a cup. Being a parent means walk

Cooperation Appreciation Consideration Understanding Patience Love How do you teach these qualities? I guess by embodying them myself and teaching by example. When you look at Mom and I do you see us cooperating with each other? Do we seem to appre

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