Seriously HH, neither do I and speaking as a mother who has lost a child I have to tell you his reason for not spending the holiday at home with his son completely floors me. I am well aware that people are all different and react in their own ways, but this I will never be able to understand. I'll tell you a couple of reasons why this bothers me so much. I know some will think of ways to defend Ron or make excuses for his behavior him 'spending the holiday with friends' and try to make what he did ok, but I gotta tell you that from where I sit it does nothing more than just raise more red flags to me...as a matter of fact imho the flags are a neon red by now, and impossible to ignore, but they will be, whatcha' gonna do?
http://www.myfoxorlando.com/dpp/news/state_news/112609-A-holiday-without-Haleigh
snipped from article linked above &
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This Thanksgiving, the family will not be together. Annette says she may stop by her daughters house. She says Haleighs father Ronald is spending the holiday with friends. She says its sometimes
easier for him to cope with memorable days like Thanksgiving without family around because they remind him too much of Haleigh.
We try not to say anything with Ronald around because hes so torn up. He just saying he doesnt know how hes going to get through it. And I can understand why, said Sykes.
First of all someone needs to tell him that when you have other children, no matter how awful things are "it still ain't all about you buddy!". YES, it's hard, but he has no option, I'm sorry...Ron's 1st responsibility is to Jr and doing what is best for him. Yes, it is Crystal's as well, she gets no pass (for those who are counting) but she didn't have Jr this Thanksgiving and since this is the Ron thread I am speaking of him. I don't care how wonderful anyone else may have been to Jr this Thanksgiving, (at least I hope they were) there is no substitute for his father especially on a Thanksgiving..Jr's 1st TG holiday without his sissy too!. What about Jr's memories of last Thanksgiving, what does he do with those? Oh, this pizzes me off so much, how thoughtless can one human being be??!!
2nd, Ron says "it's easier to cope without family around because they remind him of HaLeigh"? WTH? What a crock imo, so is he trying to forget her or something??!! Is he able to forget about her on other days that are not holidays? I know this sounds ridiculous, but so does Ron's excuse as stated by GGMS. Memories are something that you always treasure, that you hold near and dear to your heart always as painful as they are (especially at first), they can also bring a smile to your face. No one that I know that has ever lost a child (yes, HaLeigh is still presumed missing, I know) would trade those precious memories for anything in the world, as that is all you have left
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Apparently Ron wants to be rid of those memories, what a slap in the face to HaLeigh
IMHO Of course, I have no idea what effect a guilty conscience would have re: memories...I feel so bad for Jr. having to go through his 1st Thanksgiving not only without his sister, but no daddy or mama either. How sad is that??!
HH, I certainly didn't mean to rant and obviously it's not directed towards you or anyone else for that matter except RON and that's only a teeny tiny portion of what I would like to say....:furious: :banghead: :angel: