After listing to this song.. I broke down in everyway I could. My life has never been easy, from the teasing in school to my life as a teacher. I have a broken realationship w/ my father, and I would love to have a great one but in all honestly I don't. Im now 22 years old, have a great job, a man that loves me and a dog that thinks the world of me but 7 years ago changed my life- that I cannot change it. I moved to a small town hoping to start over, moving in with my father and stepmother. It started out great, I was a cheerleader, grades were great and then it turned for the worst. One day before prom, my stepmom attacked me. When this happened my friends were present. At first my father took myside and then later took hers. Now he lives with her- she moved in as soon as I left for college. The last year I lived in this town, I went to jail for something I didnt do. Friends were lost and so was I. I broke down turned to things that were not me- the system made a good person into a crimal.All I wanted was to start over and no one gave me that chance-NO ONE! Now I'm more positve in my life, and have friends that are too. I believe blood is thicker than water only wish my dad did

I cannot change that my parents are getting divorced and have told me but won't tell my younger siblings until the end of the summer when I am in college and won't be home to help them through it. I cannot change that my mom has been unhappy with my dad for the past 5 years and I never noticed when I should have. I cannot change that my memories of the past 5 years of my life are ruined now becuase all I can think about is while I was feeling happy my mother was miserable. I cannot change that my dad did nothing wrong, my mom just doesn't want to be tied down. I cannot change that he is hurt and I am angry at my mother because of it even when I don't want to be. I cannot change that my parents are going to put my siblings in therapy for it but aren't going to do the same for me. I cannot change that they are making an effort to be better parents for my siblings but not for me. I cannot change that they are going on bonding trips with my siblings but not with me. I wish I wasn't resentful towards them for it but I am and I cannot change it. I can only change my outlook on the situation and accept it for what is is and love it for what it is.

I cannot change that I was sexually molested by my brother, from the time I was so little that I cant remember exactly when, til the time I moved out of home at 17yrs old. I cannot change that I was the only biological child to my parents. I cannot change the way my sister feels about that. I cannot change the way my mom sweeps everything under the rug. I cannot change that my dad smoked himself to death. I cannot change that I got married when I was too young and had kids too young. I cannot change that I am in pain every day. I cannot change that I have abused alcohol to the fullest extent. I cannot change what other people think about me. I cannot change the past. I CAN CHANGE MY REACTION. I CAN CHANGE MY MIND. I CAN CONTROL THE MONEMT.

I'm 42 years old and I'm the youngest of eight children. I've been sexualy abused by brothers and cousin's. My mother abused me physicaly and mentally all my life. When I was little I wet the bed. My mother made me sleep in it till it had magets in it. I'd go to school smelling like urine and was picked on there also. I've never felt loved and still don't. My father passed away when I was 14 and my mother put me in a foster home. She said she was done raising kids. I've tried everything to please my family and get love from them. But still to this day they all get together but I'm not invited. I hate my life at times and wish I would of been born into a loving caring family. Because of feeling this way I've never been good at relationships. I've been married three times and it doesn't seem to workout for me. PLEASE tell me how I can change this late in my life!

At age 16, I was married to my husband. It's now 7 years later and on the outside, we seem to be happy, or so people say. I am emotional, mental, and physical exhasted. He is the only one working. I understand that he is helping us with our financial problems, but I feel that he is not here for me emotional or mental. When he is home, he is on the computer. He says he is stressed. So I leave him alone. LeAnn, I love this song, I listen and read this website every day, telling myself that things will change. But, like your words, "I will have to let go what I cannot change" I can't change him to be want I want. It'll have to be him that wants to change. I feel that we don't even have a relationship anymore. If I don't socialize with him, he doesn't bother. In a day, we may just talk 5 sentences to each other. I don't know what to do. I have told him that things need to change, but as usually once said, it'll change for a one day, maybe two and if I am lucky, a week, then back to the same thing. I have lost myself in this relationship, I don't know what I want and what I need. I will learn to change what I can and learn to love myself, tho hard.