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<blockquote data-quote="Tiredof33" data-source="post: 642613" data-attributes="member: 13558"><p>I was, am still, a softie. Always a big giver and I have met plenty of big takers to take advantage of it. Over the years I have been scr**ed over enough to learn not everyone plays nice!</p><p></p><p>I taught mine to do laundry and clean his room from a very early age. Once the novelty wore off it was a constant fight.</p><p></p><p>There are no right or wrong answers with these personality types. What works with one will not work another.</p><p></p><p>I just know with mine, I would still have him and girlfriend living on my sofa, eating my food, unemployed and STILL finding money to go to concerts and party! </p><p></p><p>It is extremely difficult to give to others (especially this time of the year) when I am not giving anything to one of the people I love most in the world. Mine would just quit AGAIN and we would be back at square one. Actually, I think he is still there!</p><p></p><p>As others have posted, any time I have tried to help mine it has cost much more money and trouble than I had ever thought it would. Just the simple act of loaning him my cell phone for a few weeks cost me over $1000. I have spent enough money on him to have attended one of the Ivy League colleges!</p><p></p><p>It is so vey difficult to have a child like this, I was a single parent too. Life just isn't fair. But always keep in the back of your mind that you have a life too, and as I finally learned, all of my helping has done nothing.</p><p>(((hugs)))</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tiredof33, post: 642613, member: 13558"] I was, am still, a softie. Always a big giver and I have met plenty of big takers to take advantage of it. Over the years I have been scr**ed over enough to learn not everyone plays nice! I taught mine to do laundry and clean his room from a very early age. Once the novelty wore off it was a constant fight. There are no right or wrong answers with these personality types. What works with one will not work another. I just know with mine, I would still have him and girlfriend living on my sofa, eating my food, unemployed and STILL finding money to go to concerts and party! It is extremely difficult to give to others (especially this time of the year) when I am not giving anything to one of the people I love most in the world. Mine would just quit AGAIN and we would be back at square one. Actually, I think he is still there! As others have posted, any time I have tried to help mine it has cost much more money and trouble than I had ever thought it would. Just the simple act of loaning him my cell phone for a few weeks cost me over $1000. I have spent enough money on him to have attended one of the Ivy League colleges! It is so vey difficult to have a child like this, I was a single parent too. Life just isn't fair. But always keep in the back of your mind that you have a life too, and as I finally learned, all of my helping has done nothing. (((hugs))) [/QUOTE]
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