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Adopted a teenager - bad outcome
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<blockquote data-quote="Suz" data-source="post: 541955" data-attributes="member: 29"><p>Your story is all too familiar to many of us here if that is any comfort to you. My son had dreadful attachment issues as a child and young adult. He was hellbent on doing whatever he wanted, whenever he wanted, and he had no regard for the impact his actions had on anyone else. He had to learn every life lesson the hard way and it wasn't until he was homeless for over a year that he finally started to come around.</p><p></p><p>You have my sympathies. Detaching is the most difficult thing I ever had to learn as a parent. I would recommend a couple of things for you to read right now. One is a detachment essay- the link is in my signature. The other is to to go the Archives of this forum and read up on responses. I don't have the link handy but I'll post it in a separate post. Many of us have found these responses to be enormously helpful- I even wrote them down and had them next to my phone so that I would remember to use them instead of what I really wanted to say (lol).</p><p></p><p>Welcome.</p><p></p><p>Hugs,</p><p>Suz</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Suz, post: 541955, member: 29"] Your story is all too familiar to many of us here if that is any comfort to you. My son had dreadful attachment issues as a child and young adult. He was hellbent on doing whatever he wanted, whenever he wanted, and he had no regard for the impact his actions had on anyone else. He had to learn every life lesson the hard way and it wasn't until he was homeless for over a year that he finally started to come around. You have my sympathies. Detaching is the most difficult thing I ever had to learn as a parent. I would recommend a couple of things for you to read right now. One is a detachment essay- the link is in my signature. The other is to to go the Archives of this forum and read up on responses. I don't have the link handy but I'll post it in a separate post. Many of us have found these responses to be enormously helpful- I even wrote them down and had them next to my phone so that I would remember to use them instead of what I really wanted to say (lol). Welcome. Hugs, Suz [/QUOTE]
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