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Another day, another knot in my stomach
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<blockquote data-quote="Kathy813" data-source="post: 579411" data-attributes="member: 1967"><p>First of all, have a list of homeless shelters ready for when you get that inevitable call. As hard as if may be, you cannot let him come back home. Use the court order as an excuse if you have to. You could also have the phone numbers and locations of food banks for him. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>This part is hard and you are going to have to decide for yourself if you want to get sucked into this situation or not. My husband and I told our difficult child that we were not raising another child and that her choices were to raise it herself with no help from us, give the baby up for adoption, or terminate the pregnancy. She chose to terminate the pregnancy which I believe was the correct thing to do in her situation.</p><p></p><p>I know everyone has thier own opinion on that so you need to do what you believe is the right thing to do. Just keep in mind that there may be another baby after this one and another one after that. Are you ready to raise another family at your age? It doesn't seem likely at this point that your difficult child will step up to the plate. </p><p></p><p>I know how hard all of this is for you.</p><p></p><p>{{{Hugs}}}</p><p></p><p>~Kathy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kathy813, post: 579411, member: 1967"] First of all, have a list of homeless shelters ready for when you get that inevitable call. As hard as if may be, you cannot let him come back home. Use the court order as an excuse if you have to. You could also have the phone numbers and locations of food banks for him. This part is hard and you are going to have to decide for yourself if you want to get sucked into this situation or not. My husband and I told our difficult child that we were not raising another child and that her choices were to raise it herself with no help from us, give the baby up for adoption, or terminate the pregnancy. She chose to terminate the pregnancy which I believe was the correct thing to do in her situation. I know everyone has thier own opinion on that so you need to do what you believe is the right thing to do. Just keep in mind that there may be another baby after this one and another one after that. Are you ready to raise another family at your age? It doesn't seem likely at this point that your difficult child will step up to the plate. I know how hard all of this is for you. {{{Hugs}}} ~Kathy [/QUOTE]
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