Topic : 08/24 Reunited

I agree with you that ej remembers susan but is trying to save face. She made a comment that her mother is going to be upset with her when se sees the show. I am sure that ej remembers susan and probably remembers everything mean and nasty little thing she said and did. She was shedding tears but those tears were tears of frustration and surprise that susan after 30 years had so much hurt and angry towards her. Ej thinks she is better than susan and to be confronted face to face with her probably frightened her. What goes around comes around. At some point in ej's life her past will catch up with her again. I will bet there are other girls she and her friends tormented and those kinds of hurts takes a long time to heal. Not everyone is thick skinned and just shake verbal abuse off and name calling do hurt. Sometime names hurt worst than the physical actions of mean spirited girls. I do hope that susan is now able to heal and get on with her life. Ej is not wasting any time on anymore. 

Susan has her daughter and granddaughter now and I pray they will be the healing touch that she needs. Life can and will be good to her if she allows it to be. I would never trust ej to be part of my life because her "sorry" was weak. She impress me that she is someone who would laugh in your face and stab you in the back. But left forgiveness come for susan and her family and goodby to ej and her stuck up friends. 

Susan and her daughter look so much alike. I pray that they will both be happy now that they have found each other. I also pray that susan can put ej in the back of her mind but learn a valuable lesson after thirty years. "Ej is not worth her time of day and she can take back her power just by moving on with her life." 

Good luck to susan and her daughter and granddaughter. This was a good lesson for me and I plan on taking back my power from someone who abused me years ago. I had not thought of this man for many years and then a few months ago I thought of him on the bus and all those ugly memories returned to haunt me everyday since. I can't understand why. I have prayed for this man's death because I would not want him to hurt another woman as her hurt me. Now I am just praying that I never ever see him again in life. God has been good to me and I trust him to continue to be good to me in all areas of my life. This is what I hope for for Susan. 

PLEASE MOVE ON AND GET OVER IT.  Why would anyone dwell on something like this for 30 years.  I believe the way we are treated as youngsters impact the way we see ourselves as adults but to keep vigil over the hatred of one person for 30 years who clearly has nothing to do with my future is insane.  So what if the cheerleader doesn't remember, she has moved on from high school.  I remember things from high school (34 years ago) but I would be nuts to hold a grudge against anyone from then.   

Dr. Phil is not doing her any favors by feeling so sorry for her and talking to EJ like she was a monster.  That only validates holding on to it all those years. 

I just watched the rest of the show.  It is clear that the daughter given up for adoption is a bigger person than her mother.  She wanted her bio mother to see that adoption didn't end her life and she can be a good mother herself and has moved forward with her life.  The mother can't even get over being teased in high school 30 years before. 

The mother was teased in high school. 

The daughter was given up at birth. 

You do the math. 

  Hey Sherrytree, that's pretty horrible what happened to you in school, with getting beat up and all, and then the authority figures do nothing to enforce the rules.  Obviously they were too chicken to get involved.     

  To all the people who say to just get over it, they are only half right, especially if they were never victims of violence that went un-punished by authorities, in addition to being psycologically abused.   

  To Jada ok, I'm glad you got over your pizza face, and the teacher shouldn't have picked on you for your speech impediment.  It's cool that you could stand up for your self, but some people can't, I don't know why.  You probably learned how to stand up for yourself  from your mother, whether you are aware of it or not.     

  Yours and the comments of some other people's are incompassionate, and are far too simplistic and demeaning.   

  Back to Sherrytree-I think you will feel better once you go to nursing school, (there are special programs for people your demographic to get them to return to school) and you will also feel better maybe by taking some self defense or martial arts classes and work out some anger by kicking butt.     

When you return to nursing school you may also be pleasantly surprised by how you are treated at the college level.  I know that where I go, the adults normally make better grades than the rest of us, because they work harder at it because they are nervous about going back to school.    

I say go for it- It might actually turn out to be a kind of healing experience.