{"id":329,"date":"2010-08-13T05:49:56","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T03:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.helengrives.nl\/akbal\/?p=329"},"modified":"2010-08-13T05:55:09","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T03:55:09","slug":"a-night-like-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.helengrives.nl\/akbal\/2010\/08\/13\/a-night-like-this\/","title":{"rendered":"A night like this"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just woke up from my dream. A very vivid dream. The house was neat with light wooden furniture. We had beds with light blue cotton sheets and I could feel them and touch them.<\/p>\n<p>The dieting makes me more tired and I fall into these deep healing sleeps. For the first time I&#8217;m not being chased or haunted on the stairs of the house. In fact my children joined me and I saw them when they where little. Smart and funny kids who gave me a hand full of work.<\/p>\n<p>So on a night like this I recreated this family feeling that I have been the protector of; the gatekeeper of the family bond. Filtering and judging every possible threat. As a scanning monitoring device I kept an eye on everybody&#8217;s well being.<\/p>\n<p>I lost that fight because I could not recognize the dark luring motivations of a predator. It was not only because of too many  people had their influence; it was also because many suck when dealing with relationships. Many only know the idealistic rules but no one knew the actual meaning of bonding.<\/p>\n<p>And I learned that because of my adoption. I&#8217;ve been interested ever since in the way family bonding works. I had to because I had somehow intuitively learned that bonding was the main principle of holding everything together. And I had lost my family. I can&#8217;t remember why they had sent me away. There&#8217;s no record of that in my memory. 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