What does “having” mean here, and why are some such sentences structured?

Does “having” here mean “facing with a situation”? Will you use with “having” instead of facing with”?

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know how it felt to be called to the house when you didn’t show up and having your mom say you moved to Connecticut?

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Asked on March 13, 2021 in Word choice.
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I am lazy but I can say that if I have something done for me or to someone that I have not done myself, I don’t have a wrong move. This usage of the verb “have” is not appropriate for a linguistic person. I had a dizzy spell and my hair had to fall off so I told my mom that you move. I, like most of the other men who have dementia, had no idea that a similar thought had occurred to me. I should probably stop thinking about it.

Why does not that use the phrase “I faced the situation when your mom told me you moved,” which emphasizes my response or just recounts that it happened. I’m not wasting my time just listening to it. I don’t like it, it does not carry precisely the same connotations or structure as “I faced the situation when your mom told me you moved.”

You would say that you “faced a situation” (active voice) or that you “were faced with a situation” (passive voice), but not that you “faced with a situation” (GE ).

As to this specific usage, the word “having” in your sentence is a gerund, as one of the antecedents to the pronnoun “it” in “how it felt”.

Answered on March 13, 2021.
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