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<blockquote data-quote="Albatross" data-source="post: 642212" data-attributes="member: 17720"><p>I sure do understand exactly how you feel right now, Lil and Jabber. husband and I had an unexpected visit with easy child (age 26) this weekend, just a chance to sit and chat for a little bit and catch up on each others' lives. After we left, husband and I talked about how...NICE it is, to just be able to TALK to the child we raised, to see how she's living her life and hear her joy and frustration and all the rest of it and know that our job is done; she just wants to share her news with us, nothing more. She knows if she got into a bind she couldn't solve on her own she could come to us for help. We know we could help her with what she needed and that would be the end of it. It would be a loving exchange.</p><p></p><p>With difficult child there's so much...gamesmanship involved. Every word, every gesture, every act of kindness must be carefully evaluated before extending ANYTHING, to evaluate the potential for him using it negatively. It's awful. I get to the point where I dread every exchange I have with him.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Albatross, post: 642212, member: 17720"] I sure do understand exactly how you feel right now, Lil and Jabber. husband and I had an unexpected visit with easy child (age 26) this weekend, just a chance to sit and chat for a little bit and catch up on each others' lives. After we left, husband and I talked about how...NICE it is, to just be able to TALK to the child we raised, to see how she's living her life and hear her joy and frustration and all the rest of it and know that our job is done; she just wants to share her news with us, nothing more. She knows if she got into a bind she couldn't solve on her own she could come to us for help. We know we could help her with what she needed and that would be the end of it. It would be a loving exchange. With difficult child there's so much...gamesmanship involved. Every word, every gesture, every act of kindness must be carefully evaluated before extending ANYTHING, to evaluate the potential for him using it negatively. It's awful. I get to the point where I dread every exchange I have with him. [/QUOTE]
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