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<blockquote data-quote="katya02" data-source="post: 198738" data-attributes="member: 2884"><p>I'm sorry this has been happening and hope you had a peaceful weekend. With everything your difficult child has been doing in your home, at least he is elsewhere now. As the others here have said, you can't help someone who won't help himself. He will have to decide, at some point, that he doesn't want to live the way he is now. You can let him know that you will support any good decisions he makes, such as going into rehab, but that there is no support for his destructive choices.</p><p></p><p>You're doing great so far. Enjoy the peace, give your attention to your other children, and carry on. I notice that your second easy child 'doesn't understand why things continue the way they are'. When life is all about the difficult child, as seems to happen with most of us, our other children lose out on our attention, and they become traumatized from the situation and from loss of access to us. They can become extremely angry, reasonably so. You have a chance now to attend to your PCs' needs. Enjoy! And go to Al-Anon or similar group meetings (parents' anonymous, Tough Love, etc.) for support, as well as the support you'll find here. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="katya02, post: 198738, member: 2884"] I'm sorry this has been happening and hope you had a peaceful weekend. With everything your difficult child has been doing in your home, at least he is elsewhere now. As the others here have said, you can't help someone who won't help himself. He will have to decide, at some point, that he doesn't want to live the way he is now. You can let him know that you will support any good decisions he makes, such as going into rehab, but that there is no support for his destructive choices. You're doing great so far. Enjoy the peace, give your attention to your other children, and carry on. I notice that your second easy child 'doesn't understand why things continue the way they are'. When life is all about the difficult child, as seems to happen with most of us, our other children lose out on our attention, and they become traumatized from the situation and from loss of access to us. They can become extremely angry, reasonably so. You have a chance now to attend to your PCs' needs. Enjoy! And go to Al-Anon or similar group meetings (parents' anonymous, Tough Love, etc.) for support, as well as the support you'll find here. :) [/QUOTE]
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